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minus-squarequindraco@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down9·8 months ago“African American Vernacular English” sounds like an awfully racist term for it.
minus-squarelady_maria@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down2·8 months ago…why? The term AAVE has been widely used for a while, including by Black Americans.
minus-squaregmtom@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down2·8 months agoBecause most people that use it aren’t African and many aren’t American.
minus-squaremindbleachlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoBritish English is a thing regardless of where it’s used or who by. Fuck else would we call these things?
“African American Vernacular English” sounds like an awfully racist term for it.
…why? The term AAVE has been widely used for a while, including by Black Americans.
Because most people that use it aren’t African and many aren’t American.
British English is a thing regardless of where it’s used or who by. Fuck else would we call these things?