• quindraco@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    “African American Vernacular English” sounds like an awfully racist term for it.

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      8 months ago

      …why? The term AAVE has been widely used for a while, including by Black Americans.

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        8 months ago

        Because most people that use it aren’t African and many aren’t American.