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Slate 11 months ago
No that's made-up ethnic group. You're probably thinking (if you're thinking...are you?) of African American Vernacular English, which is a steaming pile of shit.

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No, I’m thinking of arbitrary qualifiers prefixed to actual words. Americans speak English - not their own special brand, it is no less intelligible to other English speakers than Scots or Irish or Australians or any other native speakers and doesn’t warrant it’s own classification because some puritans decided to make cosmetic changes to it 200 years ago.