Black English

How To Use Black English In A Sentence

• As to the "creolist hypothesis" concerning the relation of Gullah to other varieties of American Black English, my objection was primarily to Dillard's tendency to present it not as hypothesis but as established fact. Gullah
• As witnessed in the controversy over Ebonics, the mainstream discourse has focused on images of African Americans rather than the historical, cultural, and linguistic developments of Black English.
• AAVE aka ebonics aks Black English was spoken neither by Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
• AAVE aka ebonics aks Black English was spoken neither by Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
• First, a caveat - Ebonics, or ‘Black English’ is not the same thing as Hip Hop Slang.
• While educators seek to teach Black children to learn and to speak mainstream English, do you believe Black English, or Ebonics, is unfairly stigmatized by American society at large?
• Yet, in assuming or acting as if Dillard's only evidence for this creolist hypothesis concerning Gullah consists of what is furnished in the text of Black English, Spears is merely demonstrating that he did not follow up Dillard's references to the writings of other creolists with anything like the diligence with which he admittedly checked out Dillard's critical citations of dialect geographers. Gullah
• Black English is as perfect as Standard American English, and in sounds it is equally distinctive.
• “Negro dialect” is a fuddy-duddy term for what some have called Ebonics, Black English, and other things, and it is a real linguistic phenomenon. Matthew Yglesias » Trent Lott Revisited
• Having encountered two variants of American English between the ages of six and twelve Black English Vernacular -- I will kick your rear end if you call BEV by a name that rhymes with "sonics" -- and a nonblack version of Southern American English, I recognized that Zipf's law considerably simplified the task of acquiring new vocabulary. Archive 2006-12-01