Who "Really" Said It First?
As I have been finishing up my Copy Editing classes I learned about an English dialect that I had only heard negative things about; African American English (AAE). Check THIS out for more. When I answered the question in the video linked above, incorrectly for a white person, I realized that I had retrained myself out of not one dialect but two. The one I knew about was on purpose. Where I grew up not many people spoke that dialect, my family did, grandparents and such, but it wasn't native to the area. I don't want to name it and shame someone because I chose to retrain out of this dialect due to the way many people see it, as uneducated. I didn't realize that one of the dialects spoken where I grew up was AAE, that's why I answered the question incorrectly for a white person. While I don't know all of the different words used or how they are used the example in the video was very familiar and then I thought of what a recent shawl design of mine was named, Math B...