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Originally posted by georgewallace3
according to what I found above....she was only partially right
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I said that people think "ebonics" is a dialect/language when it is not.
Ebonics does not exist. It was created by those who did not understand that what they were hearing was a dialect called AAVE.
The difference between slang and dialect is important. Slang is informal speech that serves to demarcate a group of people (could be cultural, professional, etc).
Dialect has its own idiomatic expressions, grammar (this is most significant...for example: in SVE and AAVE, generally the subject/verb agreement is reversed from Standard English), vocabulary and pronunciations. It is a sub-category of a standard language that has the potential of becoming its own language.