Author Topic: how do you feel about transgender people? (Read 22099 times)

Perry · January 02, 2017, 08:38:52 PM

Quote from: Red Spy on January 02, 2017, 08:36:53 PM

Who letheth you off there plantation

hands up dont shooteth!

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Tactical Nuke · January 02, 2017, 08:42:17 PM

Quote from: SeventhSandwich on January 02, 2017, 07:31:34 PM

Calling black-English 'broken' is pretty false. They've done research on this, and African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) is both linguistically consistent and sensical.

If you're going off regular American English grammar rules, parts of AAVE are technically 'wrong', but so are lots of grammatical conventions and phrases that we use today. If you went back in time to 1790 and talked to random people on the street, they'd think you're handicapped/illiterate.

Xidnaf did a really good video on AAVE. After you watch it, you can scroll down to the comments and laugh at all the angry tribals getting pissy about Xidnaf 'taking ebonics seriously'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkzVOXKXfQk

That is patently loving stupid, and just screams of excuse-making. If you grab any black guy off the street and ask him what language he speaks, I guarantee you one or two smartasses will say this. The rest will say "English", or whatever foreign language that exists.

Foxscotch · January 02, 2017, 08:45:18 PM

Quote from: Perry on January 02, 2017, 07:30:26 PM

you used to have so much integrity

hahahhhaaahahha

beachbum111111 · January 02, 2017, 08:47:12 PM

Quote from: SeventhSandwich on January 02, 2017, 07:31:34 PM

Calling black-English 'broken' is pretty false. They've done research on this, and African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) is both linguistically consistent and sensical.

If you're going off regular American English grammar rules, parts of AAVE are technically 'wrong', but so are lots of grammatical conventions and phrases that we use today. If you went back in time to 1790 and talked to random people on the street, they'd think you're handicapped/illiterate.

Xidnaf did a really good video on AAVE. After you watch it, you can scroll down to the comments and laugh at all the angry tribals getting pissy about Xidnaf 'taking ebonics seriously'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkzVOXKXfQk

WE WUZ LITERATE

Dreams_Of_Cheese · January 02, 2017, 08:55:06 PM

Quote from: Tactical Nuke on January 02, 2017, 08:42:17 PM

That is patently loving stupid, and just screams of excuse-making. If you grab any black guy off the street and ask him what language he speaks, I guarantee you one or two smartasses will say this. The rest will say "English", or whatever foreign language that exists.

it's a variety of english. why wouldn't they just say english?

Foxscotch · January 02, 2017, 08:59:54 PM

Quote from: Dreams_Of_Cheese on January 02, 2017, 08:55:06 PM

it's a variety of english. why wouldn't they just say english?

this idiot over here says he speaks english lmfao. it's obviously american english, only a fool would call it anything else

Perry · January 02, 2017, 09:01:50 PM

i'm fluent in blackfrican

Drydess · January 02, 2017, 09:06:49 PM

Quote from: Perry on January 02, 2017, 09:01:50 PM

i'm fluent in blackfrican

ooga booga

Perry · January 02, 2017, 09:08:33 PM

where is da white women at

OrangeMan · January 02, 2017, 09:45:26 PM

Massas comin we's best hide da wawtamelon

Alternat�ve · January 03, 2017, 12:14:30 AM

Quote from: Foxscotch on January 02, 2017, 08:45:18 PM

hahahhhaaahahha

Suck on me you stale ass brother

SeventhSandwich · January 03, 2017, 12:21:19 AM

Quote from: Tactical Nuke on January 02, 2017, 08:42:17 PM

That is patently loving stupid, and just screams of excuse-making. If you grab any black guy off the street and ask him what language he speaks, I guarantee you one or two smartasses will say this. The rest will say "English", or whatever foreign language that exists.

It's not 'excuse-making'. The reason why they will say English is because AAVE is not a separate language, it's a dialect. There are English creoles that are even farther from General American English than AAVE, but they're still English.

I'm sorry dude but linguistics doesn't support the theory that black people suck at grammar. They're speaking a dialect just as valid and consistent as yours.

Think of it this way: if it wasn't for people screwing up language over and over, you wouldn't have English.

SeventhSandwich · January 03, 2017, 12:30:40 AM

Furthermore, the reason you can tell that it's not just 'screwed up grammar' is because lots of black people are really good at code-switching and flipping from AAVE to regular American English depending on the company they're in.

The difference being that an immigrant who comes over and hasn't finished learning English yet is unable to do that. Their mistakes are inconsistent and usually because of bad verb conjugation and a poor grasp on English idioms.

Perry · January 03, 2017, 10:14:29 AM

Quote from: SeventhSandwich on January 03, 2017, 12:30:40 AM

Furthermore, the reason you can tell that it's not just 'screwed up grammar' is because lots of black people are really good at code-switching and flipping from AAVE to regular American English depending on the company they're in.

ebonics is our secret code we use to communicate when cops about to air the cut out

Ragequit · January 03, 2017, 02:09:56 PM

how did a conversation about transgender people turn into a loving argument about the english language