Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: C19fan
So, does this mean the libs will stop making fun of how poor Southern rural whites talk? Or will they be the only people left to be forced to use standard English?

BTW, what we think of as "black English" does not come from Africa but rather the British Isles. The use of "be" as a finite verb is one example; "ax" (Chaucerian Middle English) is another.

The early American blacks did not learn English from fellow Africans.

54 posted on 09/02/2020 8:12:04 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Modernism began two thousand years ago.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: Zionist Conspirator

In SE Michigan there is a curious linguism used by blacks and working class whites, it is ‘Alls I’m saying’ for ‘All that I am saying is’. I could never find anyone who could tell me where this speech item came from.


68 posted on 09/02/2020 9:34:37 AM PDT by robowombat (Orthodox)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 54 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson