A mother tongue spoken by millions of Americans still gets no respect
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Re: A mother tongue spoken by millions of Americans still gets no respect
#2The huge black bar at the bottom is obnoxious.
Re: A mother tongue spoken by millions of Americans still gets no respect
#3German?
Re: A mother tongue spoken by millions of Americans still gets no respect
#4I think in order for a language to gain any significant amount of respect it needs to be used in commerce and more than just illegal commerce.
Re: A mother tongue spoken by millions of Americans still gets no respect
#5The huge black bar at the bottom is obnoxious.
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Re: A mother tongue spoken by millions of Americans still gets no respect
#6I think in order for a language to gain any significant amount of respect it needs to be used in commerce and more than just illegal commerce.
Well that wasn't a bigoted comment at all.
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#7Thanks for sharing. This was a good read and I think a lot more people could use to read it instead of just blindly commenting with rude remarks...
Re: A mother tongue spoken by millions of Americans still gets no respect
#8I think in order for a language to gain any significant amount of respect it needs to be used in commerce and more than just illegal commerce.
Is your argument that AAVE is only spoken by traders in illegal services? I think we have two different matters at hand, the first being the world that speakers of AAVE are raised in teaching them to speak AAVE, and the socioeconomic status that much of this world occupies. People raised speaking AAVE are not inherently raised to be criminals like your statement seems to imply, that's a completely different factor. Of course AAVE is not widely used in legitimate commerce, the argument that the article makes is that the speakers of this language are being unfairly punished for the language they speak, which leads to a poorer socioeconomic status.
Either these people are trained to speak prescriptive English or they are barred from academic success. The argument of the article is that the treatment of the language causes this ongoing social issue, not that the social issue is preventing people from speaking American English.
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#9I think in order for a language to gain any significant amount of respect it needs to be used in commerce and more than just illegal commerce.
With a comment like that, either you didn't read the article or you just brought your own bigotry to it and left with it in tact.
Re: A mother tongue spoken by millions of Americans still gets no respect
#10The huge black bar at the bottom is obnoxious.
It beats having a huge advertisement at the bottom (and everywhere else that is whitespace). Although yes, Adblock could be used to get rid of it.