Monday, April 29, 2013
Massive corruption in the markets
Matt Taibbi always uncovers the best stuff.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Yo as a pronoun, Ebonics
Children in Baltimore spontaneously invented a third-person singular gender-free pronoun.
So it turns out American English is actually diverging now due to cultural divisions. AAVE (African-American Variant English) is a dialect getting some more intensive study - calling it "Ebonics" nearly led to the political death of all study of it, but it's a real dialect. And it has some pretty fascinating grammatical differences from standard English, too, which just leads you to wonder how this language stuff really works.
So it turns out American English is actually diverging now due to cultural divisions. AAVE (African-American Variant English) is a dialect getting some more intensive study - calling it "Ebonics" nearly led to the political death of all study of it, but it's a real dialect. And it has some pretty fascinating grammatical differences from standard English, too, which just leads you to wonder how this language stuff really works.
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