Anonymous #4 16h

In this context “y’all” is being used as a stand in for “you” (plural). Hence reading it as “you all apart of” which makes sense within the grammatical conventions of AAVE and some American southern dialects

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Anonymous #3 15h

I would look at this as American Southern but it doesn’t really matter because American Southern is dying out amongst non-black populations and they’re more or less the same thing although accents in medical structure vary; very slightly

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Anonymous #3 15h

Although I would say we should bring back some of the aspects of early modern English, that would help this such as the plural you and the pronouns that like our articles, vary w/ whether the next word is a consonant or vowel. (Thy, thine, | my mine, as well as you, V, etc.)

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Anonymous #5 15h

I mean it’s declining but I know young people who certainly have it, having relatives from rural Georgia. AAVE does have some differences in grammar due to a legacy of African grammatical influences. It’s debated but there seems to be some Afro-creole influences.

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Anonymous #3 15h

That would make sense. And it would be interesting to know that AAVE is much more uniform than “American Southern”. Even though the accents might even noticeably vary to a northern who’s lived in one small town in Vermont all their life as to grammar, accent, other variation, etc., most anyone native to the English language, especially in the US again, said northern, they could clearly point out that such an accent either descend from or is Southern.

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Anonymous blue__wave 14h

I hate southerners

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Anonymous discotheque 14h

Oh ok based

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Anonymous blue__wave 13h

What

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Anonymous discotheque 12h

y’all are dorks fr

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Anonymous _orangutan 12h

and y’all is hardly a southern thing anymore. all of y’all say it now

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Anonymous #5 3h

What?

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Anonymous _orangutan 2h

Why is he larping lol

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