>>18766326
slang is slang
dialect is dialect
you don't know the difference
you use the word as a way to try and humiliate and shame people
there is nothing that can be said in one dialect that can't be said in a different dialect of the same language.
Ebonics is a dialect, it has very clear rules of how it shows up in usage and there were people out collecting recordings of pepole and how they spoke, they went around the country in the 1920s and had a text which they got people to read. From that they determined dialects.
and found that from town to town people speak slightly different.
and then in the 1970s people using that same material were able to also ascertain that some people spoke in a way that was determined by their being descendants of slaves.
It didn't matter what towns they were from.
and so it was said than that it was it's own dialect. It is. they called it Ebonics.
gettho slang is slang. Gangsta lyrics are pop music slang.
Ebonics is a dialect of English.
if you listen you can understand it without difficulty. If you care about pepole you don't correct them when they lose the last sylibent or contract a tense. No one who wants to understand will be confused, and if you don't understand you can ask and they will explain what they said.