Video in question
https://youtu.be/vGTTbC-N9gQ
The only dictionary that is real is the Oxford dictionary from 1884. Any words added after that are not real words and should not be considered part of the English language.
And both of them are instantly debunked the moment you open up any actual textbook. It's funny that both of these people use the "it's in the dictionary" argument as well.
These people think that the dictionary is the source of all knowledge in the world rather than a limited database of words with sentence long definitions.
I like that they used AAVE, a generally accepted PC term that replaced "ebonics", but they just slapped it at end anyway lol
Yeah, in my linguistics classes we discussed the shift from Ebonics to AAVE (African American Vernacular English) to AAE (dropping the "vernacular"). I still use AAVE when talking to lay people as it's more commonly used, but yeah, even that's "outdated".
I hate read r/badlinguistics sometimes and it’s 90% shit like this. Most people making these kinds of claims are some kind of reactionary using it as justification for their bigotry or nationalists that bend shit to feel superior for having been born somewhere.
“Changing language is bad and makes you a big dumb idiot, except for the changes i was brought up with those get a pass. And also everything descends from Tamil”
Love all the weirdos trying to prove every language descends from Sanskrit/Tamil/Hebrew/Korean/Latin/whatever.
The other day they had a dude who said German descended from Latin because it had some Latin loan words haha
No because they neither know about linguistics as a whole nor about what prescriptivism is.
Would you all like to hear something very cringey and terrible:
I grew up in the whitest bread corner of a city that was almost entirely white in a province that was as well. I did a couple of courses on African-American literature (love modernist fiction) at university, but the very first class I took was themed around African-American literature and passing as white (which had some real bangers). Anyway, the first book we read was The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. Throughout all of the first essay, I called black people "Negroes" because that's what the book was using, (alongside the slur) and I thought it was the respectful term. The professor after he graded the essays talked to the class and said "I'm sure that there was no harm meant, but the terms are 'African-American' or 'black' now, Negro should not be used."
I am the ghost of embarrassment.
If it's any consolation, that was far from the worst way to learn about your mistake.
Yeah this seems to be a trending racist argument “AAVE is way for leftists to demean black people.”
England should be removed from the internet. Except Jago Hazzard he can stay as long as he keeps talking about train stations.
Terf island deserves to be sunk. Britannia ruler of the waves my ass.
