I question the reliability of much of this as a skeptic. My default English is black, but close to half of the info imo is wrong. Other half is spot on. I appreciate the effort into explaining the nuances, however I think he may need to speak to some more people that actually grew up talking "black". Some of the complications and therefore sophistication is wrong (ain't right 😂). All love though, thank you.

@@alexanderd.9460That’s the part I’m trying to figure out. It’s like some of these “Black” people in these comments are JUST now realizing their own speech is valid (because a White guy in a YT video said so). Black English can’t be studied because it’s so heavily nuanced, localized and can vary depending on location; even some of his examples are quite dated. While I’m not saying I don’t appreciate the attempt, Black people can’t be studied on a cultural, social and spiritual level by someone non-Black. I guess for some people it takes a Caucasian to say the same thing we’ve been saying for years, in order for anyone to pay attention.

@@getinloser666 it does seem like a white guy patronizing blacks for clout, but I also want to give him the benefit of the doubt that he is acting with honor even though he is plugging his book that is probably very flawed still.

Two VERY privileged and entitled white ppl "question" this😂😂😂

@@alexanderd.9460There is no such thing as “speaking Black”. Poor English and slang is poor English and slang-period! Don’t buy into this! This is White Liberal garbage!

I actually read it with a different tone each time 😂

You good? YOU GOOD?! you good. You good!

Lol, i broke it do2n to the ways we would say it by the description..​@@w..j..2605

Eeeh, limitations of writing. They're really Yew good? Y'Good? Yuh good! Yeh gooood.

Nah stop it. That's the best you can come up with? Try ratchet east coast to west coast

I noticed that so much of what they say now, we used decades ago.

I saw some little Gen Z girls tryna say "Gyat...!" was an acronym for "Girl, yo' ass thick!" And all it did was piss me off. Ay, yo... Check this out, Gen Z... Stay out our shit. Smh.

Drag queens have also stolen a lot slang from blacck women and now people say that blacck women copied from the drag queens. 🙄

Funny.. you act like it's an honor to be responsible for bastardizing the English language and being the original uneducated ones. Young people should by no means copy your culture. Your sad excuse of a culture is the incarnated version of the movie "Idiocracy" being carried out in real life.

That's true about so many aspects of culture in addition to language. The "new, cool" trends in fashion, music, etc. are things that Black people have been doing for a decade or two.

They study us so they can harvest and colonize our culture

Right lol

Lmfao, been thinking I wanted to make a video myself like this as a black man, but if bro is accurate and has a platform then it’s a start. Does the validity of the subject matter at hand depend on the ethnicity of the speaker?

This is the best answer.

Best answer indeed!

For shizzle

The long of the short of it 🤣

Chuuuuuch

Agreed. A white friend once got frustrated that I wasn’t messaging her back fast enough (I’m guessing), so after like 10 minutes she messaged me “Why won’t you fuck with me!” I was confused. I now believe she was meaning it as a variant of, “I fuck with her,” and she wanted me to interact with her… because she didn’t know that it’s a general mood of being cool with someone and not a specific interaction? It sounds weird even as I type.

@@mollygrace3068 This conjured up an image of you confused and typing back “But girl I do”😂

This dude should be telling you there's no such thing as Standard American English! At least, that's what he told me - I mean, he's wrong, but still, that's what he said.

Well black English is a European dialect but ​@@kendallwhite7002

ppl misusing black english fr be sounding like starfire

Wow. That's messed up. But at least you got paid lol

Ong 😂😂 💯

Facts...... When they catch up they are already behind

Its been evolving even faster with social media😂😂😂

Right? Gotta keep the game rollin

Lol you sholl kno what to say

And there's the fact that "You good?" and "You good." Can be about as sentimentally opposite as it gets.

We can't tell everything Good People🤫..Even though we change it when they learn it we got to chill on giving lessons ✊🏿

@@SizondThis is bonding for us. You can't truly speak our language by learning facts on paper so knowing this tidbit means nothing if you're not already connected to the culture. But the funny thing is I feel like some of them already have a sense of what I'm getting at based on the few times I've responded "You good" when they've genuinely said "My bad" after some minor thing happened with no ill intent on their part.

Just like saying, "That Part."

@@Akhenaton1906 I agree why not give lessons lol they are the ones who are always trying to make us feel bad or stupid about talking naturally, so next time they try that bs that can't say we didn't explain it to them.

Here's a better phrase for you: "prim-a-tive".

​@@OsirusIrdia audacious sideye

​@@OsirusIrdia How? Where do you think you came from sir?

@@MF-Rell I did not come from the hood speaking in poor manor. We all came from Africa, and Africans (NOT African Americans) have many languages and dialects that are advanced just like real english.

He’s jewish.

Too smart to speak lazy.

​@@Aeimos Lazy is brillant. Why? Removes unnecessary verbiage.

@@jamessanders6788if no one was ever a little bit lazy then I don’t think a lot of inventions would have been invented

@@Aeimos sick of these people speaking "english" remember when we used to speak PIE like civilized people, distraughting to see how we've fallen

@@jamessanders6788 The extra verbiage is more intelligent and aligns with the grammar inherited from the Indo-European branch and is White.

"Du hättest dahingehen können" "You hadded theregoing can/ "Du hast dahingehen können" "You had theregoing can" somewhat similar structure in german tbh😂 funny how similar the structure is, although you would always add an adverb so the meaning is more clear in german and the meaning isnt transported by the position of the "be", but by the past tense with the conjunctive. so the conjucative with the plusquamperfect says that you could have done something in the past, but now its over (this you also have in latin: "Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses"). And the the other form means you were able to go somewhere for an interval and can probably still do it. (usually used together with "die ganze zeit" "all the time" -> "Du hast die ganze Zeit dahingehen können?" "You could have gone there all the time?") Its interesting how we still have the grammatical structure but we dont really use it to carry much meaning as we nearly always use adverbs. but the meaning is the same without adverbs, its just not as clear. its interesting how much simpler its to use the word position of the "be" to indicate that instead of a very complicated grammatical contruction.

“You could have been there” is how we say it. And we hate the white term “Ebonics” 🤣🤦🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️

Bingo

"been gone"= left a little while ago.."been din gone"= left a long time ago

​@Gr8Poseidon It's a black term, and it's spelled, Ebonyx. You know, like ebony, black?

Gyat pisses me off so much. Went from a black man saying gyat dayum to some ass, and now they refer to the ass itself as a "gyat". What the fuck is that!!

Code switching runs much deeper... What you are talking about it's just about being professional at work

😂

All the Black professionals agree🤣🤣🤣

It’s more than language switching. But I won’t go into details in front of company.

Omg so true lol

I wish other people could understand this

that's not what being bilingual is...I could claim the same thing as I can speak both American and British English. Dialects are not the same as languages. And in case you are wondering, I do speak 2 other languages

@@JonZiegler6 well, as they say languages are dialects which have the army and the navy.

@@mikhailmokeev6913 well I speak a language from a country with no navy... That's a nonsense quote

​@@JonZiegler6 well, as of now there are no "countries". forget that. having a global banking system and the system of global information distribution makes the term obsolete. maybe with one exception, which is the country of the ethnicity the author of this qoute belonged. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_an_army_and_navy

Soooo true 😂and my face always scrunches up. 😖 Like my aunt always said “duh-ruh” 😏

It’s the same as “I’ve been telling you that.” It just cuts out words. Have to fill in the blanks.

​@@funkrates4778I been done told you that means something different from I been telling you that. I been done told you that implies that you are tired from repeating yourself. So listen carefully this time. I been telling you that. Implies that you are glad they finally understand.

​@@funkrates4778one is said before the party understands and one is said after the party understands.

@@sadejones6657 okay. Nobody said “I been done told you. “ anyway, it means “I had already told you that.” Either way, that’s what it means.

Emphasis on constantly evolving I go back to the city and hear new lingo and laugh at how it keeps going I love it

@@dfredankey word, I'm Dominican. Just started kicking it with folks who came to the states and found out all my slang been outdated for a whole decade

This 👆🏿 & often labelled with derogatory terms like "Broken English" when they are Creoles that even carry grammatical inflexions from African languages! Nothing can be broken about a language!

gotta keep the posers at bay

I don't see why it would need to be explained why a none American would speak broken English..

I am deceased 💀 thinking about you playing scrabble with folks use AAVE! I do speak AAVE, and write some of it on social media in blk spaces, but it never occurred to me that AAVE or Ebonics was showing up in scrabble games! 💀

lol 😂

🤣 I use to play scrabble with my grandmother, that was her favorite game and she would use words of Louisiana Creole, AAVE and standard English and I _swear_ she would be making up words if she was starting to lose. 😂

@@RobeLifeMusic uh Rob, that's 'i coulda been told y'all that' 🤣

@@oneidajames-rebeccu4847 True. Also, it's Robe, not Rob. As in the majestic clothing and sleepwear attire. Hence, "Robe Life" 👘🙌

😂😂 Yes, and lol

fo shizzle

And is 😅😅

Your the speak English type

Facts!

non-exploitative? Do you really believe a person of color could write that book with 95% of the publishing industry being white? And news flash many so called black books are written by white or white with black pen name authors. This is exploitative especially since he’s writing a new on the basis of European American reclassification of Indigenous people calling us African when we are not African.

I want that book too. this is my first time hearing someone speak on black english or language from within black american culture

@@JeanAvantif that’s the case you still haven’t. He’s not in the Black American culture, he has experience with it yes but he’s not in it. A lot of what he said was incorrect at that. He gave you a more than normal educated white perspective. 😂

A k-pop star went viral and got dragged for saying "I'm gon' finna" in a song last year It was the most cringe thing I've heard in ages 😬

For Koreans not to like black people that much, they stay biting our ish!

@@concamon1364 hahahahaa

Yup. Not like us...proceed with caution.

Kpop stars are supposed to be hiring americans for their lyrics? Yikessss😅 but Koreans make a lot of mistakes in English anyway cause they have such a different native language than us

Lmaoooo

It's based on our original West African sentence structure

​@@sparklesp9304 Such as?

​@sparklesp9304 no it ain't. That's all black American made.

He is probably upset because they CANNOY CONTRY OUR TONGUES! 💆🏾🔥🖤👸🏾🙎🏾‍♂️🙍🏾

Just magical ✨✨✨

i’m not black but grew up speaking Black English w my peers - the example that came to mind is fixing something. “i’m tryna fix this thing” could mean both “in the moment i am attempting to repair it”, and “i have intention down the line to fix the thing”.

@@Very_Okay That's a good example because saying "I'm not tryna fix that," would definitely sound like "I have no intention of fixing that."

@@Very_Okaywhen you make a suggestion to a friend and they respond “I ain’t fixin to do sh*t” and you all burst out laughing is a staple when communicating in black. I grew up hearing that on the west coast with family and neighbors from the south.

@@theinvisiblewoman5709 😂😂😂 true.

@@theinvisiblewoman5709 I also know of white speech examples of "fixin' " to do something. It meant more like I'm planning on doing something, either in the near future, or at an indeterminate time. But I don't think I ever heard it in the negative.

I hope you told her she was right. That's not english !

@@user-ke7wd3cl9z yeah, as I said it’s AAVE lol

@@user-ke7wd3cl9z it’s not standard English no. It’s a dialect. It’s like you didn’t watch the video.

I know it’s off topic but is living in Korea better than America? Are there any pros or cons ?

@@user-ke7wd3cl9zdid you not watch the video ????

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For my white friends: this means 'they not like us' EDIT: im sorry if you still cant read it, youre just white

Good answer good answer... We cut from a different Cloth..

I think it's lazy. Most people do too.

Black English is mostly about being cryptic in order to avoid the law it's complexities are the primary feature. It's not complex because of higher standards it's complex due to a necessity and as soon as a whitey figures out the code it's changed. Black English is overly complex to the point of being useless outside of its own microcosms. Black English isn't good for communicating vital technical information it's mostly good for scoring drugs or getting prostitutes. It's not an engineering language is the language of a criminal. Aye dawg where u at im tryna come tru and take a flight. White translation I'm trying to come over so I can drugs with you and get High

Your English teacher had a passion for language and teaching. Good on them!

Most of them don't, tho

Shake it like you tryna get paid Make that ass clap Work it like you tryna get a raise Make that ass clap Them niggas throwin' ones we throwin' hundreds Make that ass clap Came in the club straight stuntin' Make that ass clap We don't stand around we make it rain Make that ass clap Bitch this ain't no check, this Just some change Make that ass clap Baby you the baddest of them all Make that ass clap Somebody give her a round of applause Make that ass clap

@@TrePrince you’re literally are not listening to this video.

Code-switching is literally a part of life for EVERYONE in the US under 50. We do it with our kids, our communities, our professions etc. It's not a bad thing as it forces our brains to constantly reevaluate a situation and come up with the most appropriate response. Anyone who doesn't "code-switch" has by nature a very insular life.

not able to express themselves in a narrower band 😂😂 massive cope

Attempting to teach everyone how to speak the language in a way (the "correct" way) in which we can understand each other (regardless of where we grew up) is only logical. Remember, English isn't only an American language, it's spoken throughout the world. There are many ways to speak English and they are all understandable if you learn them. Local dialects are not only officially incorrect (and sometimes less clear or less efficient), their differences from mainstream English are useless or counterproductive if you are trying to communicate with someone outside of your local group.

​@@Leispada what is your position / argument on this? You said cope but didn't give reasons why

To OP: I'm a Black Nigerian American (born here in the US with Nigerian immigrant parents) in computer science and math, tho I've only been in my working career for just over 5 years so you have about 10 years on me. That's awesome to hear from your perspective!! I'm heavily involved in orgs like NSBE and have an idea of that you're talking about, a lot of very smart young people who maybe just haven't had as much exposure to the corporate / professional world and just need some guidance on how to navigate it. Keep doing your thing! What field of STEM are you in?

Stop giving away secrets! LOL Context, Tone and even age can determine what some words "saying" mean. Truly, has cultural and generational significance. No 🧢

"Alright now" is standard English and has multiple meanings based on intonation and context as well.

I remember when you did not talk if front of company. ❤

lol You are so right I'm 22 and use "Yah Hurd meh" and "alright now" the second one can also be used as a greeting or to show that you are listening or agreeing with something.

@@nonyobisniss7928 Yes the two words Alright and Now are english but how blacks use it is different.

With sarcasm on the side 😂. Glad to read it's read the same as I heard it.

Exactly!

And this is a base level example. Because depending on our mood, how we say it or given the situation when we say it; the phrase, question or statement can take on a whole other meaning. And this is what most outsiders don't understand...! 😂😂 It's like we have a code within a code within an code.

​@@d_classified6433🌹

A lot of communication with us is all about tone and inflection and you know what’s meant based on our collective experience, like Keke giving her one word “Rose” as the clue for “Titanic.” 😁😶

It’s so wrong it like deep now. Heh

Last year I don’t know if you remember the news that a local meteorologist said “Fo shìzzle my ńìzzle” live on the air. She was responding to her colleague and she got fìred

No he wasn’t nobody even say it like that no more 🤦🏽🤷🏽🤣😭💀

i have never heard anyone say it like that lmbo

I had an immediate blank stare lmao but im also some people here even by this point may be like 'it sounds fine to me' haha

I laughed too hard at this 🤣

😂😂😂

Pu'in all our biz'nes on front street. But it's all good

😅😂😂

This ain't even no secret... I'm sick of people correcting me when I type.

It basically means.."I gotcha, no need to further explain"

It's the hood version of "As long as we tracking.."

In the country we say " say no mo"😂

@@CHASIN_A_BASS”say no mo” and “say less” are actually different 😅 The former is an agreement with the words previously spoken. While the later is an acknowledgement of understanding the context of a situation without further explanation, usually it indicates advice is to follow. I.e “say less, so watchu gon do about it”

@@3zyon actually around here they mean the same exact thing. And are used interchangeably.

go blue! engineering undergrad here :)

Congratulations!!!

Congratulations!!

GO BLUE!!!💙 Psych!!!

Congratulations!!!

I appreciate you! I came up in communities that speak this language. It definitely stands out when people fake it.

Right, he slid that in and I had to be like, heyyyy, wait a minute 🧐

Same I agree🤣😭 I was smiling the whole video it made me appreciate our dialect a loooot more. 😮‍💨‼️

Solid approach.! Looking forward to your book

And you think that this is good? That’s wazzup🤨

Thanks! Another issue I see a lot is the treatment of AAE like it’s some qualitatively different thing. It’s a language variety, and we do a tremendous disservice by pretending it’s not a linguistically normal variety that is unique in the ways that all language varieties are

@@languagejones6784 It's inferior, less precise, imperfectly learned and imperfectly used English. Try as you might, you can never make your case. You're just that type of white person. What you're doing is actually racist, but you think it's the opposite of racist.

@@languagejones6784 It's of no value. It's funny how a certain type of white person, well-meaning, maybe, wants to elevate imperfectly learned English. Similar to Singlish, where I can't imagine an American or European learning imperfect Mandarin and mixing it with English because learning the real language is just too hard.

@@languagejones6784 Shouldn't a black linguist write this book? Whitey knows better, I guess.

A study conducted at King's College London determined that over the last 100 years, African Americans are responsible for expanding the English language more than any other group. The group that has done the most damage to English? Conservative White Americans. Mostly by appropriating words and changing or distorting their accepted meaning, but also by gaslighting and declaring words they couldn't manipulate to their advantage invalid and/or stigmatizing their usage.

Facts! The Twitter racists do this when they’re trying to mock Black Americans.

Yessss

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I used to frequent a Błack website FULL of impostors pretending to be Błack. 😞 It was so obvious. They sounded so ridiculous and their reactions to things that happened in the news were clearly off. RealBłack people didn’t care about half the stuff they were responding to. It was so so ridiculous 🥴

And their responses to things. We know how Błack people generally tend to think. They start off their statement with “As a Błack person, I think.... ...” and here we go with the lies.😂😂 “As a Błack person I say everyone should be arrested for parking next to a fire hydrant so we can clean up our communities.” 🤔🙄arrested? chile please. Trust and believe NOBODY Błack thinks that 🙄🙄....with as long as we’ve been dealing with excessive polîcïng, please know we see you, “Błack person.”

so true

Or a person.

Lol.

Earl Grey’s lesser known cousin

English dialect of African Americans is pretty long. :D One of people called it in my native language: African Americans' dialect and I like it.

Ah, 90s were good times for hip hop and rap.

Read, Sonja Lanehart's book FIRST . she is the source .

We're not in 2018 anymore

Same! I understand Black English, but don't really speak it since I grew up in mostly white areas too, and my parents are African, so we didn't use it at home. I'd love to read this book and learn more about it.

exactly, we’re not angry we’re passionate!

Idk bruv, Ice Cube always looks angry, no matter what he says

​@@arkoarko9559that man is a teddy bear. He just has heavy rbf... 😂

@@ajm935 that I Agree

It’s cause people yell when they speak (obviously not everyone, but in general they speak louder). I see why it can be bothering to others. It can feel like the person talking doesn’t care or is not thinking about the people around by talking loud and making their presence felt by everyone, even if they don’t mean to portray this. So this over comfortableness makes other people uncomfortable. Same thing when a junky starts talking loud or yelling in the street. It’s uncomfortable unless you are used to it. People around get intimidated even though you’re just being “over expressive”. If somebody sees a person who is very expressive, one assumes that any emotion can burst at any time, being unpredictable, which is what people don’t like. We northern Mexicans go through the same because our accent it’s also loud and rough so people think we are angry all the time.

It’s funny when people say, “talk white”. When it’s just proper English. We dumb ourselves down by claiming proper is white, when anyone can speak properly

@@dadegixxer”dumb ourselves down” no… standard English does not equal “smarter”, lol did you watch the video?

It not supposed to be to show how smart you are jackhole, its so your understood!!! If you can't talk properly i will assume its due to some sort of defect on your end. If you dont want to be "disrespected" then communicate properly.

@@dadegixxer But why SHOULD anyone want to speak like a public school teacher, or a newscaster, or what have you. That way of speaking isn't "proper" in any deep sense, it's merely what has been deemed proper (due to complicated historical-especially cultural, economic, and racial-reasons) by the group in power at some specific point in time. And it is NOT easy to speak that way naturally, because the whole point of declaring a specific way of speaking "proper" (which happens in part without conscious design) is to use it to erect social and economic barriers, to mark out those who can't master the dialect's subtleties the way the in-group can.

@@dadegixxer Right. But as MOST black kids will already know, "talking white" was a real thing growing up. I'm 47...so I have no idea what language js doing these days. I imagine most kids are talking "tiktok" now haha... But, at least in the 1970s and 80s...you definitely got that label thrown your way if you spoke "proper" english.

Downplayed and diminished by the entire world yet imitated by the entire .... and I do mean entire world. Everything we do has made the entire world wealthy. Kids in [name a country{ have never even seen a Błack American in person yet are raking in millions imitating them. But continue downplaying and diminishing ...

Basically Culture Vultures

Exactly. Thats the gag.

SulminatiBoss - it’s because language is the easiest and most no-cost way to steal from a culture. Anybody can start speaking another way today. It’s not like basketball where they want to do what Błack players do on the court. Those players literally changed the game and they want to do it but they can’t. They don’t have the moves, rhythm, speed, agility or strength. Can’t see the court. Or music. They can’t just start improvising and playing by ear or dance the same or sing the same. That all requires talent to steal and duplicate. But language? Language is up for grabs. Just steal and say, and it’s “yours.” This is where we are

@@noble604 our language was never up for grabs, stealing like usual and putting your face on it, we don’t want or need ppl validation, you only saying that because you think it’s beneficial for you like usual but it don’t work like that

that's not unique to America, broski. Most major ports all over the world had multiple groups of differing ethnicities. But I share in your particular "glimmer" (opposite of "trigger") when it comes to being around a variety of people. But I love being around MY people most.. it's lit.

⁠@@lexxlucreAmerica is obviously on a completely different level though when comes to ethnicity’s, growth and coming together. Life quite literally wouldn’t be the same if we never did. It doesn’t get better then having unity in one of the most united countries on earth. Those are *my* people

​@lexxlucre Except America was founded on the idea that we could all come together as different people to create a better world. To me that is a beautiful goal

​@@ArtistUnknownOfficial idk if it was "founded" on it

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Love Finna!

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Facts!! I kept having to pause and think when he would say "this doesn't mean this, it means that," because I'm like, it literally means that, but it also can be used to mean the other thing he said. However, as a black person you would just know that based upon the use of "mood" as he called it so I never really had to think about it intellectually, not to mention he wasn't saying it with the right intonation/mood. Had me shook for a sec, like do I really not understand what I think I know? Lmao!

A white friend of mine heard a BW say, “I went off on him.” She asked me what that meant and I told her. The next week she told me that she, “went off” on her husband. I laughed on the inside 😂

they study us like lab rats tryna recreate the formula. Chile....good luck.

The origin of "Black Language," counter to your beliefs, is very well known. The language is the language of the Cracker/Redneck culture brought to the US South. The Crackers/Rednecks emigrated to the US South from the Scottish Highlands and the far northern reaches of the UK. It was never a pidgin and is not a creole. It is the continuation of the emigrated peoples language. Black Culture in the US is Cracker/Redneck culture. You are obviously a professor, not a doctor, and are not in anyways close to an expert on the subject of the video. The video's substance is completely created by you and contains zero truths. You're a sad phony.

I didnt realize it either! Wow!

Or it could be that Black people code switch around unfamiliar Whites.

It's always been easy for me to understand, but for my boomer dad you have to speak very slow and in a certain way or else he won't understand.

It's a bit like if a Brit spoke to you casually, you're gonna struggle with understanding some things.

Nooo I’m dead 😂

someone calling u cold is a top tier compliment. 🥶 but ngl i forget some english speakers can’t understand aave😭

Wait, is being cold being very cool? You are making sense and I don't like it.

Sure. To say "cold" means someone or something is very cool, or awesome. It could mean something really good or amazing. It could mean top tier. ​@@andyarken7906

Y’all from the Midwest 🤔

I caught it 2 seconds later and said, "aight... touché, sir 😏"

I was confused for a hot sec then it clicked. 😂😂😂

timestamp?

@@bradentheman1373 it's right before the title logo, at 1:08

real talk! it was only after he "corrected" himself that I was like... _damn_

@@BacchusLumen the thing that really blows my mind is when Black folks started naming their kids things like Marcus it just tainted the name for white Americans. The mainstream really hates black folks more than it likes classical antiquity

what kind of grammatical constructions? I've never studied latin, so I'd be interested in what examples might be :o

You're full of shit. English had Latin grammar grafted on to it. "Black English" might, through the inability to learn this more awkward grammar, might be accidentally using an earlier form of English grammar - but it couldn't possibly be anything like Latin.

@@quicksilvertaint An example would be omitting the "to be" verb. For example, it's common to hear something in Black English like, "He crazy!" In Latin this was also common. "Ille insanus est!" would roughly translate to, "He is crazy!" in English. But if you were a native speaker of Latin, even if you were writing for a very sophisticated audience, it would be very common to say, "Ille insanus!" and just omit the "is" from the sentence. Which translates roughly as, "He crazy!" in English.

@@languagejones6784 , I agree with that wholeheartedly, and it's such a common example that it makes the point nicely. Relatedly, there are so many great classical names like Cesar or Marco or Julio or Aurelio that were also more common among my Latino classmates and friends growing up. It seems like there's a small resurgence of classical names among people who see themselves as counter-cultural right now, but it's hard to know if that will grow. Hopefully someday Μάρκος/Marcus will be mainstream again.

Me too!!!

I feel u code switchin is annoying it happens automatically for me im trynna stop it especially workin in the office and being basically the only black person there

Code switching: I hate this new term. We all read our audiences. How I speak among my parents is different from friends, teachers, boss, CEO, cousins. People who grow up with families from multiple groups will speak differently to fit within because this is natural and we have been doing this before code switching is now so talked about.

We been up on this.

I think code switching has a negative connotation when in reality it’s not. We do it on a daily unintentional. Even when speaking to other blk ppl you code switch to better understand each other. (Ex: blk person from the suburbs speaking to a blk person from the city. Or an AA speaking to a Caribbean persons.) you code switch when you speak to cashier and the list goes on. It’s not a bad thing it’s just more associated with blk ppl entering work space that are majority white. Code switching is just a form of communication for the other party to understand you better. Imo you’re not changing who you are to fit into a space (unless that’s what ppl usually do but I’m not one of them) you’re just switching for better understanding of a conversation. Bc as a Caribbean girl raised in the suburbs, went to a majority white school, and was in majority AA spaces outside of school your girl code switches all the time! I cnt speak to my AA friends like I speak to my family bc they wouldn’t understand. Same when I went to school etc. Which imo puts in an advantage in some cases because I’ve noticed just like how white ppl cnt understand AAVE, black ppl cnt understand the undertones what white ppl mean when they say or do certain things. I had to explain to a friend of mine the other day. So it’s okay to code switch, you learn a lot from the different spaces you’re in. It’s like knowing several languages! When you change your view abt code switching you’ll realize it’s not a negative thing. Just always be yourself and you won’t feel some type of way abt it ❤

Me too I thought white guy bout to to be on bs but I’m glad I watched ❤

Agreed. Though I do think he got one or two things wrong, overall his observation and interpretation were very well explained.

Isnt it really the same thing. No matter when they did it. They still did it. “Been came out” for black people is also 3 days ago not a long time like a year ago .. people are just on different times and im black

He's very observant true...I would even say too observant 👀🤔 We're always under a microscope and I don't like it. What's understood don't need to be explained.

@@Rebecca23434 idk i think this applies to every “broken language” being English isn’t our native language.. 80% of communication is non verbal so ignorance go the properness of that language means most words actually have a non verbal side to it. Less past tense words and more action words. Saying “ i been done that” isnt more effective than saying “ i already did it” because theres no room for confusion or double meanings. But cool video

this lmao i tried to say this

yaaas!!!! The 1st is a scold frfr. Ty

Yess! This is hilarious 😂

Yup! First phrase is opportunity missed! Second phrase usually means the opportunity still exists!

​@@lamontdurr1682 exactly