The Twitterverse Is Irked After A Clueless ‘SNL’ Skit Wrongly Attributed AAVE To Gen Z
“In the large cities you had spatial segregation but you also had the formation of separate communities often with a kind of oppositional culture to the rest of the U.S. This created an ideal context for African American Vernacular English to develop along a sort of separate track,” linguist Guy Bailey told PBS.
According to the Linguistics Society of America, AAVE is derived from two possible sources: some linguists contend that the vernacular stems from the combination of nonstandard English used by indentured servants mixed with African colloquialisms while the two groups interacted, and others assert that the dialect originated from exclusively African language structures.
“The Black folk who learned to speak English learned to speak it from English people who were ignorant themselves, historian and kemetologist, Anthony Browder, said on BET’s The Breakdown during a March episode focused on “Black English.”
“But even within us adapting this foreign language, this oppressive language, there were methods of speaking and communicating that were part of the African culture that we use to dress up this language, to give feeling and soul to this language…It is because of the energy that emanates from the body that gives life to the words that transform the consciousness of the people hearing those words,” he added.
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