McWhorter on "Negro English"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Part of the difficulty is that for nonlinguists "dialect" most likely still
means "ignorant, hard-to-understand way of talking."

JL

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Amy West <medievalist at w-sts.com> wrote:

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> That's not the impression I got from sections of _Word on the
> Street_: he treats it as a dialect and recognizes that standard
> English is an artificial dialect.
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> ---Amy West
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> >Date:    Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:13:25 -0500
> >From:    Terry Irons <t.irons at MOREHEADSTATE.EDU>
> >Subject: Re: McWhorter on "Negro English"
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> >See Matthew 7:4-6 or Luke 6: 41-42.
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> >While McWhorter is well published, he views AAVE as a degenerate form of
> >standard English, not a legitimate variety of language.
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