AAVE grammatical Aspects
Aspect Example SE Meaning Habitual/continuative aspect[54] He be workin' Tuesdays. He works frequently or habitually. Intensified continuative (habitual) He stay workin'. He is always working. Intensified continuative (not habitual)[55] He steady workin'. He keeps on working. Perfect progressive He been workin'. He has been working. Irrealis He finna go to work. He is about to go to work.a
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I get asked a ton of questions from Japanese learning English like, "Why is African-American English so much harder to understand than 'normal' English?"
Well I could go into the whole slavery-creole-no-real-education-for-blacks-at-that-time thing, but I think there's a more studied answer that I can give my students... Hence me looking on Wikipedia...
After reading this, I'm convinced--There must be at least 100 linguists that got their PhDs from hanging out in a North St. Louis liquor store...
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This is an experiment of sorts to try to tie together my online identity and my offline personality. I've made plenty of business oriented sites, but I have never actually put together one for myself personally... With the advent of social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace along with blog sites like Blogger and Twitter, I find that I have cut a wide swath here in the internet, in terms of being actively online, but there isn't one place to really tie that information together. So this will be an attempt at doing so.