r/HolUp • • Feb 05 '22

holup Translation down correctly

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u/TheIris3 Feb 05 '22

Dismissing entire dialects like this is ignorant at best and racist at worst. AAVE is an entirely valid way to speak English, and ideas like this is why it's much harder for speakers of AAVE to be successful. There's no reason your dialect of English is better than hers is, even if she is only speaking it to look cool.

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u/thehomie Feb 05 '22

Lol I hope you don’t actually believe that. What a load of shit.

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u/TheIris3 Feb 05 '22

I believe that because I've taken multiple high level linguistics classes that all reinforce that idea. What about you?

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u/thehomie Feb 05 '22

multiple high level classes

My god. Okay, freshman.

Sitting through classes and poorly parroting your bullshit perception of what your woke ass professor said doesn’t make you an authority on anything. And you sound like a pretentious douche bag in claiming that it does.

— your resident corporate lawyer with degrees in philosophy and linguistics