Your Grammar Is Basic Compared to Black English

Thank You for your educated review. Its so important that our culture is reviewed & analyzed thru an unbiased lense.. Very rarely do we get honest interpretations....you are greatly appreciated. You've just taught me not to view my own vernacular as negative, but more creative. As a black woman born in America, I have to constantly remind myself not to view myself thru the eyes of those who deem themselves "superior". Thank u, sir🫡🫡

Also, as a Black woman, it bothers me how much our AAVE / Black English is being termed as “Gen Z Slang” cause no its not. They copied it from us, something we been using ☺️

And when outsiders catch on, we come up with all new slang and dialects 🤣🤣🤣

Hahaha this made me realize when we "code switch" it's really a language switch! Soon as 5pm hit the "ebonics" is back 😩

"It's totally possible to get Black English wrong..." Absolutely!! Tell tale sign of a troll!

Basically we Talk so yall can't understand us. Then we change it when u do.

This is really interesting because whenever I hear someone misuse Black English grammar in an incorrect way, it feels the same way as when someone misuses Standard American English. I guess it was just my brain picking up on the grammatical rules of both systems.

As a white guy that played Scrabble with black people, I coulda told you this years ago.

I was the only AA in my accelerated Teaching program. When I told the professor that my mom made us speak standard English at home and at our Catholic school, but we spoke vernacular outside of the home, he said, so you're bilingual. I was so tickled inside because my classmates were SO uncomfortable. 😂

I always thought …. “If it’s so lazy and simple for simple people then why can’t you do it? Why do YOU sound so stupid trying to imitate it… incorrectly?”

"You coulda been gone there" = you could've traveled to that place long ago. "You been coulda gone there" = you've had access to that place for a long time

One example of two words with multiple meanings are: "You good?" And "Alright now". Soooooooo many meanings !!!

As a black man with two college degrees and a grandmother who was a school teacher, I was able to master both, the “King’s English” and “Ebonics”. My favorite term in AAL is “iight now” or “alright now”. Can be used as a warning, a congratulatory praise and a couple other different interpretations. To understand which one is being used requires context of the situation at hand. Those of us who have the ability to use both traditionally use one or the other depending on the environment, hence the term “code switching”.

Nooo, you’re leaking our secrets.

"They not like us..."

As a 40+ Black man born in MS and raised in MI and have lived in IL, GA, TX, and currently CA, this right up my alley! "You coulda been gon dere" indicates what you probably should have already done, while "You been coulda gon dere" indicates the ability to go that spot has been present for a long time and isn't necessarily present now! One is a statement of what was expected but not achieved, the other is a question about why it wasn't!

It feels so weird to hear the standard way I talk broken down like this 😅 .... I don't think about anything that I or other black Americans say, I just understand it depending on tone and context. At this point, I don't really notice when I "code switch" either until I've already finished talking with whoever it is that I switched for. I accidentally said "what you finna do after " to a white friend at work and he was lost, so I cleaned it up by asking if he had plans lol

What I’m learning from this video is that we don’t think Black English be like it is, but it do.

Black people speak melodically. We bend the language to our personalities and use words differently based on situations and are not limited by the dictionary

I’m so happy to have found this. As a Black woman who grew up in predominantly white neighborhoods and spaces, it’s difficult to explain all this to folks and their weird uncles at family gatherings. I definitely need the book!!