#linguistic habits and being practically unavoidable unless you make a conscious effort:
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Are you black? If not why are you using aave 💀
#me when i dont know how aave has morphed and been co-opted into commonplace internet speak to the point of seeping into everyone's#linguistic habits and being practically unavoidable unless you make a conscious effort:#(not saying this happening was a good thing in fact i very much think it was not. but it is still a fact and something that happened)#and as someone who's a proficient second language english speaker i am intimately aware of this while still sometimes not being able to tel#which parts of my personal online-speak are ''standard english'' and which parts are vernaculars (aave included among others)#ultimately as long as you recognize that there are many mixed influences to internet speech (chief among which is aave) and you keep it#respectful towards day-to-day aave speakers you are no more racist than if you didn't. the damage has already been dealt and is systematic#and dare i say inextricable. the most important factor is ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and respect for the language and its speakers#also. and i say this carefully because it is tangential to my point. most languages and vernaculars are made to be learned.#anyways go follow sunn m'cheaux and khadija mbowe! mr m'cheaux especially makes AMAZING black linguistics content.
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