AAVE Explained: A Dialect That Transcends Internet Culture

[@RoseCalyx]

What is with so many of these comments? this is just a nice little explanation of aave, it gives the facts and if you can't accept that different dialects exist in groups outside your own- which have their own unique histories- idk what to tell you. That's kinda just how language is. You're not going to "get" what isn't familiar to you

[@aubreyyoung4610]

White people being white. Pay them no mind.

[@aubreyyoung4610]

@@thebestgachatuberever3864 prove it.

[@user-rx7pd1xv4k]

I have lived in the USA for my whole life, but I grew up in the suburbs and didn't really meet a lot of African American people until I moved to a different city when I was 20. I took an interest in languages about several years ago and I feel delighted to learn that there are like, actually grammar and other rules of usage in the creole that is AAVE. It's really rich, I had no idea. I want to learn more. Discrimination based on dialect is not unique to the USA, but I wonder how we as a society can change the perception.

[@firstghost3038]

It's not broken or incorrect it's simple Black American idiosyncratic way of speaking English. We're geniuses...See Classical music then see ragtime, gospel, jazz etc, etc...

[@datboi42]

The main thing to know about Ebonics/AAVE is, is that it exists when people want to bash it, and it doesn’t exist when people don’t want to acknowledge it or credit it. These are 9 times out of 10 the same people usually. And you’ll notice this problem only happens to American Black people who clearly speak differently than everyone else. Because it’s a racism thing, unfortunately. No other group has their dialect copied and disrespected as much as American Black people. They want it to remain a myth or a cautionary tale. Same people who say "for real", "cool", and "smooth", in this comment section calling Ebonics/AAVE stupid and dumb, will use those Ebonics/AAVE terms in their day to day life, not knowing that the context in which we use them come from Ebonics/AAVE. It’s a racism thing

[@doctorgames101b]

Interesting. So, I have been using AAVE my whole life, regardless my improvement in reading and understanding the English language? Along with the New York accent as well? Wow. Good video.

[@thebestgachatuberever3864]

It originated from white southern Americans that came from southern England

[@RaMahUganda]

Look up the name Alonzo Dow Turner he wrote book Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect...

[@RaMahUganda]

Youll see these words we use are litterally words from all over Africa with a few english thrown in... not the other way around... Look up on your Goolge search.... African words found in English Dictionary....a pleather with be listed but not near all... so...as you study AAVE remember the foundation....

[@UniversalMysticsOfChrist]

Awesome job!!

[@darkquark4592]

Very interesting explanations. Can one explain the usage and meaning of the "N word" in AAVE? I am confused about that one. PS, this is just "Ebonics" rebranded.

[@ThaDogfather_YT]

It's not so much a rebranding of ebonics it was called aae/ aave and ebonics for a while but with the term ebonics having negative connotations of being just slang, and uneducated linguists moved away from that term to help remove the stigma. Aae is actually considered a language that is more nuanced and sophisticated than standard English.

[@oceanic8424]

Now I understand, ese.

[@uservdhdunxinfstinf]

thomas sowell: it’s just english from the pre civil war american south (ie: hillbilly english) then after slavery, people with african ancestry migrated west and to the major cities around the nation…the scots irish or people from the rural outskirts of england still talk this way just like in appalachia

[@akatress]

Awesome awesome awesome!

[@johannesepping7746]

Cool - thank you - this is really something I didn’t know about!

[@squeedum4893]

Honest question: Is there a similar video for the Appalachian-American dialect?

[@ChrisPyle]

There are KZbin videos of residents explaining it. It's actually funny, doesn't make it good or proper English, but it's a dialect for sure.

[@douglascrouse8793]

The rural Southern and Appalachian dialects were picked up by African slaves n the South, and has now, unfortunately, become a major part of "Black culture."

[@douglascrouse8793]

@@Eulogy10 Ebonics and "AAVE" weren't appropriated. It's a form if English learned from illiterate Southerners.

[@bigpynk]

@@douglascrouse8793 no

[@douglascrouse8793]

@@bigpynk No need, really, since "AAVE" is derived from Appalachian English. ;)

[@rodb66]

Great job explaining AAVE. It's a shame that we're demonized when using this way of talking but non blacks are looked at as being cool.

[@Boubua]

as a white person who used aave because its what has been in my brain since i was exposed to it my whole childhood and had it stuck in my vocabulary for a LONG time until I moved and was around pretty much only white people and i hate it when people say this because it is NOT seen as cool and I was bullied for it a lot causing me to force myself to unlearn everything that i had installed into my brain

[@Pax_Mayn3]

Nobody looks at it as cool, anybody who speaks this way will immediately be written off, you will never be taken serious speaking like this. It's just an excuse to speak incorrectly because learning proper english is difficult. Everybody is laughing at this video.

[@fritzwrangle-clouder6033]

Your lazy argument and the video is based on the silly assumption that non blacks speak the so called 'plain English'.

[@douglascrouse8793]

Anyone using "AAVE" comes across as unintelligent.

[@dylanbaker7090]

white or black talking like this is hilariously dumb! can you explain FINNA for me?? hahahah

[@simplespanish_]

This is a good explanation, was taking notes the whole time!

[@BabbelPlus]

🧡

[@zubileegluckgluck]

the only explanation for this, in reality, is intellectual laziness and lack of self-respect. the video was ridiculous.

[@khattimithinews6356]

Khatti meethi news

[@realherbalism1017]

Nice to know that the bar for education is so low now. Speaking as someone who's parent grew up in the hills of Kentucky and who's vocabulary was not the greatest, it's ok to speak this way around friends & family but not in public. Regardless of your actual intelligence it makes you sound like you're ignorant.

[@Pax_Mayn3]

It's not a dialect, it's lack of education. You can't legitimize gibberish which is what it is. Do better, naw sayin dawg?

[@alexas3833]

Is Jamaican patois a lack of education too?

[@realherbalism1017]

@@alexas3833 yes

[@NIKOSAUTOS]

@@alexas3833yes

[@dylanbaker7090]

@@alexas3833 YES

[@kayleer2420]

Actually, you lack the education. Linguistics have proven AAVE follows grammar rules just like standard English. Don’t be hateful

[@UltraOozaru]

Bro…….wtf? 😂

[@johngordon3406]

Pure garbage!!

[@bigpynk]

No

[@dylanbaker7090]

@@bigpynk yes

[@dylanbaker7090]

THis is cringe asf... they really replace GONNA with FINNA... its not even shorter... like whats the point?

[@SoboloMan]

Gonna and finna are both used, neither are supposed to be better .

[@dylanbaker7090]

@@SoboloMan I get that they are both used... but Only one is correct and makes any sense. The other is a degenerated version of the original, only used by a certain demographic of people who are known for pronouncing words incorrectly, and then using those incorrect words like they're correct and then attempting to normalise it.. Its sort of like the N word situation.. Instead of being like "yeah that words bad lets have NO one use it" they're like "we know this word is bad but we gonna still use it BECAUSE its bad and we can at least OWN it" Like Finna... Its copied from Gonna, except Gonna has "go" in it so at least it somewhat relays the expression of "going to, gone". Finna... Find... Fish... what insightful information can you provide about this word? other than one mentally defunct person saying a word wrong and then it becoming "trendy" lmao

[@SoboloMan]

@@dylanbaker7090 i agree i dislike the n word, but for finna i really dont care if you are gonna use finna or gonna. Both are used in the black african american dialect anyways. Both are informal version of going to but whatever… imna christian so we need to focus on things better, im still gonna understand you if you use finna or gonna just dont speak gibberish on me and im okay

[@therandomname69420]

​@@dylanbaker7090 Bro's never heard of slang 💀 Not everyone is supposed to speak like an English poet in the 1700s bro