Anonymous asked:
would you date a girl with anxiety/depression?
nocuer answered:
Yeah and we gonna fight that shit together
Most of us deal with emotional battles so I think it is very sexy when people are honest about it.
““Hurl yourself at goals above your head and bear the lacerations that come when you slip and make a fool of yourself. Try always, as long as you have breath in your body, to take the hard way–and work, work, work to build yourself into a rich, continually evolving entity.””
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“I don’t need you. I don’t need you .. I don’t need you … I don’t need you …. I don’t need you ….. I don’t need you …… Okay, I need you, I want you, I Love You, I miss You.”
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THIS
Can confirm. My favorite book on linguistics has an entire section on AAVE that talks about this.
So some people are better at bad English than others? Also, in what kind of classes is this knowledge useful?
Well, it’s not “bad English,” it is a formalized dialect with clear structures and rules that distinguish it from Standard American English, which is itself just another dialect.
And as for your second question: Like it says in the post. Linguistics. The scientific study of the nature and structure of language. It’s a pretty big and important discipline.
And there are different dialects within AAVE. The way people talk in NOLA – even different parts of NOLA – is not the same way people talk in NYC, is not the same way people talk in Alabama.
I say it again but I miss when nkjemisin was on tumblr 😔 the only damn celeb that knew how to use this site aside from neilgaiman and wilwheadon
“I'ma [X],” “I(’m) finna [X],” “I’m fit'in ta [X],” “I’m fixin’-ready to [X],” “‘Boutta [X],” and more - all different. And transplants from other areas are a thing, too.
^^^^this. which is another reason why it’s so easy for us to spot the outsider.
people who come into our spaces and try to talk like us will try to cut and paste different regional dialects that they think sound cool.
we can understand and communicate with each other even when using regional variations of AAVE. we can even use another regions substitutions flawlessly and still be understood. especially now with black folks being from various different places but all together on social media platforms. it’s not just slang and its far from “bad english”.
Right. Like when non black people do the “ inner black woman” thing they are usually all parroting the same black woman, who sounds a lot like Shanaynay, who was Martin Lawrence in drag making fun of black women that lived in Detroit in the 90’s.
A misogynist’s take on Black women from Detroit in the 90’s isn’t what black women sounded like then. And that black woman from Detroit can’t exist in Louisville. She doesn’t exist in DC. She isn’t in Philly, or New Orleans. And if all black women didn’t all sound the same in the 90’s they definitely don’t now.
So in all that “GUHHHHHHRLLLLL/girlfriend” head rotating, neck snaping shit didn’t exist outside of his mockery and (Ricki Lake who popularized the whole inner black woman thing), non black tell on themselves and how they feel about us and their language In that they rely on trying to communicate through an archaic, fictional, black girl created by a man that doesn’t even like black girls
Somethings only your soul can teach. So no matter how many $3500 classes Karen takes she could NEVA!!!!!!!
