>>8686192i literally just said it sounds wrong. it sounds incredibly stupid, white girls trying to act like black girls. white girls who use aave sound exactly like white girls trying to sound black. it's annoying and sounds weird. put your big girl petticoat on and calm down.
>>8686196african american vernacular english. basically when you hear black people use shorthand. like i said above, the term "sleeping on this" is aave for ignoring something. "why are y'all sleeping on this" means "why are you ignoring this"
>>8686202yeah, no. i can see it being offensive when used specifically to make fun of the way black people talk, because no one realizes aave is a legit language offshoot with specific rules just like any other language. linguists consider it to be the same as any other language because you can study it and predict it just like any other language. but while white people using aave sounds wrong and stupid, it's not the same as using a word specifically invented to keep a race of slaves down. your comm leader needs to get real.
now let's stop derailing a makeup thread.
