#Black American language

[tani-b-art]

October is Creole Heritage Month in Louisiana!

‘Eve’s Bayou’ — I missed so many other scenes with Kouri-Vini dialogue first time around, here’s an updated version. The last clip is from this video.

[the-b1ah]

Part 1 of the batburger saga

Imma try to get all of Cass’s ASL right but let me know if I’ve fucked up in the comments. I’m already dreading how many hands I’m about to draw but anything for the queen of ass kicking.

Also gargoyle are very fun to draw btw

Context:

Black bat is doing the classic bat brood over Gotham city when our little ghostie decides to pop over. Since he’s acquired a free “all you can eat” batburgers pass it only seems fair to share the wealth.

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Black bat: *gazing despondently upon Gotham with dramatic music in the back* >:(🦇🪦🌧️

Phantom: Hey! ope, sorry to interrupt your brooding, want Batburgers?

Black bat : :D✨💖🫧

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Art reference

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Masterlist | Origin | part 2

[metalheadsforblacklivesmatter]

So the members of the discord at @bfpnola were explaining to me why BASL (Black American Sign Language) is a separate language than ASL (American Sign Language) because I was wondering if it was for a similar reason as AAVE (African American Vernacular English).

Fun fact. It's because of segregation. So when Sign Language in America was being taught. The schools were segregated, so they each dealt with deaf accommodations in their own way. White schools were taking a more integration approach so they highly frowned on the use of Sign and they were trying to get deaf kids to practice speaking.

However, Black schools were more opening to the use of Sign, so they had a lot longer to develop their Sign Language than White schools, as they were encouraging Sign at a time when white schools weren't.

Follow and support @bfpnola because they teach me so many things and it is so cool. 😁

-fae

[digitalfishwish]

I wanted to put out a post asking if there are any black nonverbal or deaf/HoH people who use BASL who would be willing to consult on an animation project?

My junior year of art school starts this fall, and I will begin working of my junior-senior thesis 3D animation, where the main character is a black nonbinary person who, in the beginning and ending scenes, is seen communicating with sign language. I am white and more-or-less abled-hearing (I have Auditory Processing Disorder but I don’t know if that counts), but I know there are differences between ASL and BASL, and I wanted to have a lot of sensitivity around using this dialect accurately and respectfully.

The consultation would involve taking videos of your hands as you sign the ‘dialogue’ I have written, which would then be used as a reference in the 3D animation. I am a relatively broke student but I am willing to pay for your consultation. Please DM me if you’re interested!

Note: I apologize in advance if I have mistakenly used any offensive terms in this post, I tried to do a lot of research but I’m sure I have shortcomings and gaps in my knowledge.

[globalriseofblackpeople]

Stop correcting southerners . It’s very anti black . A Lot of AAVE or Ebonics come from the south . Respect it . There is no proper way to speak

[forthosebefore]

Are there Black dialects of Spanish?

Some people got a surprising result after taking an MIT dialect quiz. It was meant to guess what U.S. dialect the test taker spoke and the person's native language. As results started coming in, many Spanish speakers saw their English dialect had been marked as “U.S. Black Vernacular/Ebonics”

But what's the connection between speaking Spanish and U.S. Black Vernacular?

In the United States, dialects spoken by African Americans are sometimes referred to as Black English, African American Vernacular English, or even Ebonics. Though the terms have had different levels of popularity, having a specific name at all has given African Americans the ability to reclaim their language practices as a joyous part of their identity. 

But much less common are terms and discussions about Blackness and Black language beyond English. If Black English dialects exist, are there also Black forms of other languages due to colonization? For example, are there Black Spanishes and Black Portugueses, too? Read more here.

Source: Are there Black dialects of Spanish? by Aris M. Clemons

Visit www.attawellsummer.com/forthosebefore to learn more about Black history.

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[the-everqueen]

me [takes your face gently between my hands]: hob gadling would not be a history professor at any number of british universities because of how humanities academia works and even if he were, rose walker would not be his student or advisee.

[have-you-read-this-short-fiction]

[azhvne-blog]

Tutnese

Hashesqualulo fufamum 👋🏾 ❗️

So I went down this rabbit hole after finding out that I come from the Soulaan people.

I’ve learned that our ancestors spoke a secret language or argot known as “Tutnese” or “Tut” for short.

Apparently, this is an actual language that our ancestors who were enslaved used to communicate with each other in private and to learn how to read.

I remember being told that tut was “fake” and just “a made up language.” (Mind you, all languages are made up, but I digress😅) However, this language was almost becoming extinct until Gloria McIlwain published her book on the tut language.

I’m currently self learning/ teaching this language, in hopes to communicate with my fellow Soulaan brothers and sisters.

I’ve been trying to find her book but only 1500 copies were made and sold in 1995. But once I get my hands on a pdf version it’s over😭

LET US GATE KEEP THIS PLEASE 🙏🏾 AS THE PURPOSE, INTENT, & ORIGIN OF THIS LANGUAGE IS FOR US TO USE WITH US AND ONLY BY US.

[nando161mando]

[tani-b-art]

GO TO BED! Y’ALL FROM SHREVEPORT? (am I the only person who just randomly blurts this out?!)

The Princess and The Frog was the second film I’ve watched that has Louisiana Creole/Kouri-Vini on the big screen! (although some of it maybe Louisiana French—I think). Or at least I think the film is showcasing Kouri-Vini. I could be so wrong because my ear could be mixing KV and French.

I hadn’t realized till now that the captions for the Kouri-Vini dialogue isn’t exactly captured. Maybe the tv version of the film does it but the DVD of the film doesn’t. Some parts actually will have (Speaking French) in the captions when either Dr. Facilier or Ray speaks non-English.

Raymond’s Cajun accent is so on point lol! The pronunciation of Ray-Mòn is on point!! That lil firefly is super country! I for real laugh out loud everytime “Go to bed! Y’all from Shreveport” comes up!!! Shreveport is sooo north of the boot that many Louisianians, jokingly, don’t even consider it’s in the state, ha! And Dr. Facilier’s Kouri-Vini is good! He’s definitely the Creole unc! He kinda sounded like my late great-grandmothers and my late mamaw! The Creole inflections are pretty good to say Keith David isn’t from Louisiana! (I’m still trying to figure out if Ray is speaking like a combination of Louisiana French and Kouri-Vini or it’s Cajun itself —maybe an expert can educate me on that; I’m unlearned on a lot of the Louisiana languages)

Louisiana accents are so colorful! And each parish, heck, each city and region all over the state has unique accents! Even within the same region there are different accents & dialects. Ray’s Cajun accent is so Cajun coated/coded too! And it always fascinates me how much you can gather from peoples’ accents & dialects and inflection of speech etc…Ray, that’s a white firefly lol, you can tell! I’ve read that Creoles are Black and Cajuns are white isn’t entirely exclusive as that because there can be some Black Cajuns and there can be white Creoles but I’m not positive on that.

Two small things—I would’ve spelled cousin Beaudreaux as Boudreaux and Grandmama as Grandmamaw. But the surname Boudreaux has so many different variations that it isn’t inaccurate. I just grew up only seeing Boudreaux (from all the different parishes and cities I grew up in; had a grade school teacher named Mrs. Boudreaux, classmates with their last names spelled that way too).

I think when it comes to film and casting for specific movies that are set in the South, people tend to just think, “okay, just sound country”….NOOOO! The South has its own accents but then it gets broken down even further to state accents and then regional accents! You can’t just be so undetailed like that. They’ll be characters that’s supposed to be from Louisiana but sound like they from Alabama. Or when it’s a New Orleans based show, there’s not one person that sounds like Toya Wright or Big Freedia. Please bring back Southern accent & dialect coaches in the industry!

I’m hoping as our beautiful, ancestral, indigenous Louisiana Creole, lineage language continues to be taught, practiced & learned (to preserve it because it’s endangered [one form of it has been extinct]; I hope Louisiana officially makes it a part of school curriculum —I’m trying my very best to learn it too) that movies and tv starts to make more effort in accurately translating it in closed captions (as well as in script/screenplay; I looked at the TPATF screenplay and it doesn’t really write it out either).

*I adore hearing chère (although I spell it sha)

[nero-neptune]

i'm afraid that there's Never gonna be a concentrated effort to get the nazis off of tumbler dot com, bc no one knows what a nazi (or neo-nazi, for that matter) actually is! additionally, no one knows what nazi rhetoric even is, not when it's passes the "Uses Progressive Language" test, bc using the Good Words™ is all you need to let extremely racist messages fly under the nazi-detecting radar. god forbid anyone look in the mirror and ask "am I the bad guy??" and get their shit together.

this website: "hey staff !! >:((( when are you gonna get rid of all the nazis?!?!"

also this website: *makes the 358th conspiratorial post that Strongly Suggests that bloodthirsty jews (with dual loyalty, Of Course) control the media. this post has over 20k notes*

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

Intro ("Optimus Bellum Domitor") by UFC • Warzone by Slayer • Blunt Force Trauma by Damageplan • Live For This by Hatebreed • Cowards by American Head Charge • Power Of I And I by Shadows Fall • Bullet The Blue Sky by Sepultura • Slave Labor by Fear Factory • Born To Crush You by Icepick • Breath Life by Killswitch Engage • Indifferent To Suffering by Chimaira • Face The Pain by Stemm • It's Alright by U.P.O. • Listen by Index Case • Lost Cause by Black Flood Diesel • Dying Here by Scars Of Life

Youtube

[hasellia]

So apparently, as an Aussie, you can't use the word "busting" online because it's been corrupted to mean something else. It now joins the ranks of "lolly" (as in lollipop, used to refer to candy in general), as Australian cultural lexicons forbidden by the internet. At least we gave the world "selfie," though.

This, however, still pales in comparison to what the internet has done to the African American Vernacular English dialect (this is where "rizz", "Karen", "woke", "drip", "gyatt" and many other modern internet slang have been appropriated from). Or how just anything related to the Scottish dialect of English is used as an unserious joke.

Back in my day, we made up our own nonsense words instead of stealing words we don't understand and insisting it never had any value in the first place.

The hegemonic soft power that white USAmerica has over the english language, even through the World Wide Web, is so damn infuriating sometimes.

[weirdo09]

i love learnin abt black asl like this is so fun, it’s just better to me than white asl like it’s !!!!

[daily-public-domain]

Day 90: Frances Densmore uses a wax cylinder phonograph to record the native language of the Blackfoot People, 1916.

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–This image is part of the public domain, meaning you can do anything you want with it ! (you could even sell it as a shirt, poster or whatever)–