McWhorter on "Negro English"

[Gordon, Matthew J.]

I'm not sure where you got that impression, Terry. McWhorter's views are pretty much in line with the received wisdom within linguistics. For example in the  piece linked in this thread, he says, "Black English is as systematic as standard English, and what we hear as "mistakes" are just variations, not denigrations."

-Matt Gordon


On 1/13/10 1:13 PM, "Terry Irons" <t.irons at MOREHEADSTATE.EDU> wrote:

See Matthew 7:4-6 or Luke 6: 41-42.

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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