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i& #39;ve wanted to post something for awhile about AAVE because it was something i didn& #39;t know about and i think a lot of others don& #39;t either. i waited until i was more educated. it& #39;s still not something i should be fully speaking on. it is up to individuals to educate themselves. 1/
(this thread is gonna be super long-skip to 13 to learn more if you don& #39;t care about the personal part)quick def: AAVE stands for African American Vernacular English. It is a legitimate dialect of the english language (like british english)
pls try to read it all
sources @ end 2/
pls try to read it all
sources @ end 2/
before i continue, the most important part of this thread for me is apologizing. i know i don& #39;t have many active followers and even fewer followers that are black/POC. but i recognize that in the past, especially as i become more and more active on twitter, i have used terms...3/
that are AAVE. so i apologize. and as soon as i saw and learned about it i started to police myself more about what i was saying and how things i say could be received. i have done some research as to what kinds of language and even inflections, are considered to be AAVE. 4/
i work really hard to try and catch myself or fix what i am about to say to get out of the habits of using those words/sayings (as well as some hand motions). i must say it is easier to do on the internet than in person. 5/
like i said i am aware that like, 11 people will see this. but i feel it important to share with anyone that admitting you& #39;ve made mistakes is easy and so very important. it is a path to being better. and allies can always be better. 6/
when i first started seeing aave tweets on my timeline i learned what it was but i, as well as im sure some others, brushed it aside. a lot of the terms i was seeing thrown around as aave were all "internet terms" and they were really big in stan culture. so i paid no mind. 7/
but i kept seeing it and learned that these terms weren& #39;t just stan culture. aave is the language black people use and have been using in their communities for a long time. and they were, to say it lightly, taken (appropriated) by the white LGBTQ+ community and by influencers..8/
then they land on the timeline and take off as twitter language. but that is not it at all. black people speak like this in their real lives. i saw that and in the spirit of full honesty. i got kind of upset. black creators i followed were taking a huge part of the internet...9/
and i wasn& #39;t really grasping the full concept of it. i know now that even if it feels like the language is a huge part of society, the black community should not have to share something that is theirs simply because they have already been made to. 10/
editing note: i am also in no place to be upset about this. they are taking nothing from me. they are reclaiming what is theirs.
i was also confused bc i felt there were bigger issues to tackle. but now i recognize that that shouldn& #39;t matter. this is a time to listen to black people and do whatever i/we can, as allies, to make even small steps easier. as that will make the bigger steps simpler, as well.11/
i still have a lot to learn and i know that more than ever now. so again, for anyone still reading. i apologize. i am sorry. i am growing and i am changing. 12/
terms that i know of to be aave:
period,periodt,purr, any other variation
y& #39;all (this is the hard for me, i& #39;m trying)
tea
popped off
girl...
chile
it& #39;s the _____ for me
the way... (the way i just fell asleep at work)
not... (not me crying rn)
no but... (no but why am i mad)
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period,periodt,purr, any other variation
y& #39;all (this is the hard for me, i& #39;m trying)
tea
popped off
girl...
chile
it& #39;s the _____ for me
the way... (the way i just fell asleep at work)
not... (not me crying rn)
no but... (no but why am i mad)
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other things that were copied from black communities:
long acrylic nails
a lot of popular hand motions were created/popularized by black creators (the finger gun thing for sure)
there& #39;s a lot more but these are what i see a lot on my timeline used by non black ppl 14/
long acrylic nails
a lot of popular hand motions were created/popularized by black creators (the finger gun thing for sure)
there& #39;s a lot more but these are what i see a lot on my timeline used by non black ppl 14/
also like, i don& #39;t want to say broken english but like, displacing "be"/"been" (ex: he do be round/he been trying), taking out is/are (ex: he workin), double negative (i think that& #39;s what it& #39;s called) (ex: don& #39;t nobody tell me different), blaccents (google it), etc 15/
so this was one of the first tweets i saw about aave. it sort of explained in short how aave evolved into stan twitter language n then gets at one of the controversies of why non black people shouldn& #39;t use aave. 16/
as a white person i think i have reached the limit as to what i can say. all i can do is continue to learn and help those around me learn about it themselves. remember, if a black person (or anyone rly) says they& #39;re offended by something. don& #39;t tell them they& #39;re not :) 17/
if you feel called out, that is your problem and your problem only. admit your mistakes. don& #39;t get defensive cause you& #39;ll just look silly. don& #39;t message me and ask me more. DON& #39;T message the black people in your life and ask them more. take accountability and educate yourself.18/
sorry this was so long, here are my links. also it& #39;s super easy to just search aave in google (for modern articles) and google scholar(for historical info): https://www.languagejones.com/blog-1/2014/6/8/what-is-aave#:~:text=AAVE%20is%20an%20acronym%20for,English%20Vernacular%20(BEV).%20%5B">https://www.languagejones.com/blog-1/20...
https://meaww.com/aave-african-american-vernacular-english-black-english-internet-stan-culture-white-people-cant-use">https://meaww.com/aave-afri...
https://www.hawaii.edu/satocenter/langnet/definitions/aave.html">https://www.hawaii.edu/satocente...
there& #39;s a lot more out there, too.
thank you, if you read this far. i really have been wanting to share because, like i said it& #39;s important to always be learning. call me out, call out your friends, call yourself out.and more so, listen to black people. #BlackLivesMatter
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thank you, if you read this far. i really have been wanting to share because, like i said it& #39;s important to always be learning. call me out, call out your friends, call yourself out.and more so, listen to black people. #BlackLivesMatter
