After explaining to a coworker that Black American English is grammatically different from General American English and not just "worse" or whatever, using the specific example of an experiment which demonstrated that "be Xing" and "is Xing" mean two different things in BAE but not GAE, my coworker paused for about five seconds and said "well it's still bad". This coworker was also incredibly insecure about a ton of things, but what sticks out to me to this day was him telling me that he's in the first percentile of intelligence and that I'm also pretty smart so I must be in the second or third percentile.
After explaining to a coworker that Black American English is grammatically different from General American English and not just "worse" or whatever, using the specific example of an experiment which demonstrated that "be Xing" and "is Xing" mean two different things in BAE but not GAE, my coworker paused for about five seconds and said "well it's still bad". This coworker was also incredibly insecure about a ton of things, but what sticks out to me to this day was him telling me that he's in the first percentile of intelligence and that I'm also pretty smart so I must be in the second or third percentile.
:michael-laugh:
didn't have the heart to tell him and i also thought it was hilarious he said that in the process of giving me a backhanded compliment