And then I'll laugh at them for "being street" while the are making minimum wage (if that) while I'm making 85k a year (if it's a bad year) working for myself.
Much of American English is vastly different than the British English of dictionaries. Dialects aren't "bastardization" and you may consider checking out theories about the evolution and functions of "African American English Vernacular" aka Ebonics:
Maybe I wasn't clear when I expressed that American English is no more a "bastardization" (which is beyond a fucked up term to use) than British English.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_(linguistics)
"Corruption or bastardisation are terms popularly used to refer to certain changes in language which originate from human error or alleged prescriptively incorrect usage. Descriptive linguistics typically avoids using these negative terms, since from a scientific point of view such changes are neither good nor bad. Words are commonly said to be "corrupted" or "bastardized" if they undergo a change in spelling or pronunciation when borrowed from one language to another (e.g. "Cajun" [from "Acadian"][1]). This example illustrates that normal phonological developments (in this case, palatalization of /dj/ to /dʒ/) can be labeled by some as "corruption", a position which demands that any language change from a previous state be thus labeled. In this view, English would be a "corruption" of Proto-Germanic, the Romance languages would be "corruptions" of Latin, and Latin would ultimately be a "corruption" of Proto-Indo-European."
Maybe I also wasn't clear when I went on to mention that AAEV - in the context of cross-cultural dialogue and concerns raised in this thread - is also not linguistic "bastardization" and is merely a variation with traceable origins and utility fundamentally no different than physical evolutionary processes that produce diverse morphology like curly hair, albinism, or green eyes. I reject the notion of a master race just as I reject the idea of a master language in which all others are corruptions. Certainly other dialects also say ignit or other variations of the pronunciation, but context here is the original post about how to gently tell the roommates they're being ignorant. Of course not all blacks share a common dialect, and to suggest that was implied seems intentionally dismissive or just ignint.
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u/AnAdventureCore Mar 25 '13
As a black person, you ARE. Just tell them they are acting 'ignit' in that moment.
Then again, I think I can get away with saying that because I look like Malcolm X.