jirasol:it’s called AAVE, you FUCKTRUCKI hate how people here think that “proper general English” is
jirasol:it’s called AAVE, you FUCKTRUCKI hate how people here think that “proper general English” is the only way to speak English and all the others are considered “idiocy” like if language has anything to do with intelligence. I’m not even from the U.S. and I know this better than most of you.Below is a list of all English dialects in North America:American English - Standard American English is the general formCulturalAfrican-American Vernacular English (AAVE)Chicano EnglishNew York Latino EnglishPennsylvania Dutch EnglishYeshivishYinglishRegionalNew England EnglishBoston accentBoston Brahmin accentHudson Valley EnglishLake Dialect or Lake TalkVermont EnglishInland Northern American English (includes western and central upstate New York)Northeast Pennsylvania EnglishMid-Atlantic dialectsBaltimore dialectPhiladelphia dialectPittsburgh EnglishNew York dialectNew Jersey English dialectsInland Northern American English (Lower peninsula of Michigan, northern Ohio and Indiana, Chicago, part of eastern Wisconsin and upstate New York)North–Central American English (primarily Minnesota, but also most of Wisconsin, the Upper peninsula of Michigan, and parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, and Iowa)Yooper dialect (Upper Peninsula of Michigan and some neighboring areas)Midland American EnglishNorth Midlands English (thin swath from Nebraska to Ohio)St. LouisSouth Midland (thin swath from Oklahoma to Pennsylvania)Southern EnglishAppalachian EnglishTidewater accentVirginia PiedmontVirginia TidewaterCoastal Southeastern (Charleston, South Carolina, Savannah, Georgia area)Cajun EnglishHarkers Island English (North Carolina)Ozark EnglishSouthern Highland EnglishGullah or GeecheeTexanYat dialect (New Orleans)OcracokeWestern EnglishCalifornia EnglishBoontlingPacific Northwest EnglishHawaiian Pidgin -- source link
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