McWhorter on "Negro English"

[Terry Irons]

I retract my comments about his view on AAVE.  It is more his
conservative views on victimology  and race that I find troublesome. In
that context, citing the passage from Matthew is appropriate for him.  I
think he fails to see that sometimes the log in the other guy's eye is
more the problem than the speck in my own.

Gordon, Matthew J. wrote:

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