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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
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> Now most African Americans are middle class and speak US middle
class English. I teach at a predominantly African American university
and about 60-70% of my students speak standard US middle class English.
That's interesting to me. May I ask what university do you teach at
(and where is it located)?
Many don't even recognize terms or words from AAVE. Those who do use
AAVE generally use it only with friends and family but most of my
students are unidentifiable by accent.
What does AAVE stand for? African-American Vulgar English?
> In the South and in the major cities of the North and Midwest, there
is still quite a bit of residential segregation but in suburbia and
small towns outside the South, that's not so evident. I live in a town
that seems to be thoroughly mixed. In fact, on my street, most of the
families are mixed and everyone I know has in-laws or nieces and
nephews of a different color.
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Yeah, my nephews and nieces are all of a different colour from me, and
from each other (although they all look Caucasian, the girls have a
light brown tinge (Latina-looking) while the boys are light and have
no outward trace of African (they look typically white Canadian)). My
mom and her three sisters are all different colours too, ranging from
European-looking white to medium brown, and some with afro hair and
some with European hair (just as my brother has straight European hair
while I have afro hair). But that's not common in Canada like it is
in your part of the U.S, or in Trinidad.
Andrew