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African American Vernacular English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
African American Vernacular English ( AAVE )—also called African American English ; less precisely Black English , Black Vernacular , Black English Vernacular ( BEV ), or Black Vernacula...
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AAVE is just as legitimate as American English. Because of this prejudice there is a big push in the African American community to be bidialectal -- fluent in both Standard English and AAVE.
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a portion of the complaint relates to Gloria Squitiro using the term "Mammy" to describe college educated, professional, African-American employees at City Hall ... And then there's the question of the victims of this derogatory and bigoted language. Rumor is already spreading on the local internets that one of the women...
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If it Ain't Broke Don't Fix It: Toward a Policy of Full Recognition of African American Language; Language Planning as a Field of Inquiry; What's in a Name? Where did African American Language Come From? Language in the African Diaspora: The Case of Samaná English;
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African American language (Black Vernacular English (BEV), Black English, Ebonics) a rule-governed dialect of American English with roots in southern English. BEV is spoken by African-American youths and by many adults in their casual, intimate speech- sometimes called Ebonics.
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How did this African word become part of the American language? Part of the explanation is that one in every five American ... "Honkie," a term popular during the 1960s, was first used by blacks to describe those white men who drove into African-American communities and honked automobile horns for their black dates.
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