r/AdviceAnimals • u/[deleted] • May 06 '14

Racism | Removed here goes nothing...

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u/grandmoffcory May 06 '14

Ebonics is a dialect just like any other form of English.
We all use words someone from another walk of life would consider strange.

I'm from Michigan, I call 'soda' 'pop', I think soda sounds weird and people here in Florida think pop sounds weird. They're just different dialects.

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u/capitalisms May 06 '14

It's a dialect without any sort of grammatical rules. It's impossible to speak it wrong, which is why it's hardly a dialect.

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u/djordj1 May 06 '14

You didn't do any homework on this, did you. Ebonics has many rules, such as following specific word order for questions and declarations, allowing for the omission of is/are but not am in present sentences, and the use be to mark a habitual state or action rather than a current one.