Considering the description of the "inner-city" woman speaking "haughtily..."
One thing I love about linguistics is that not considering AAVE (and lots of other dialects of English) a legitimate dialect is considered completely insane. ... Wow, what an awkward sentence, there.
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Date: 2009-09-10 04:49 pm (UTC)One thing I love about linguistics is that not considering AAVE (and lots of other dialects of English) a legitimate dialect is considered completely insane. ... Wow, what an awkward sentence, there.