Youse just as crazy as you ever was. – You are just as crazy as you always were. - Complex

So, the husband forbids her thinking. "He is very careful and loving", says the wife, "hardly lets me stir without special direction. I have a

Speech is often associate with race because some individuals believe that if the person does not sound “educated” enough the person comes from a lower class and was brought up in the so called “ghettos” and this association is often made towards someone that forms part of a minority group. The author illustrates that race is tight up with speech

I know that washer. That’s the Maytag Epic High Efficiency Front Load Washer with the five-minute delayed liquid bleach dispenser. Miss Cozy was probably dead before the Clorox hit the wash water."

Syntax is how a sentence is structured. In this chapter one of the major sections is “No. You’re wrong there- quite wrong there. The bank is something else than men. It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it.

I peeped my head out out from the cloth like a curious meerkat, then scooted out from under the table. I grinned inward and glanced at my laced up boots. If I was in heels I would not have been able to do that.

The phonological patterns of Maine’s dialects are pretty interesting to the outsiders by the way the Mainers pronounce certain words. There are many words are pronounced with the AH sound like sound in the word “father.” In project

The way some of the African-Americans spoke is very well seen and expressed in some of their poems. In document D, it is brung to the light by words like “de” meaning “the,” “ma” meaning “my,” and “an’” meaning “and.” This shows racial pride by showing what they grew up saying and their

The members of the African American culture speak with each other sometimes using Ebonics, Ebonics isn’t our main language because our main language was stripped from us during slavery. Ebonics is chopped

“Uh Cromwell needs his bath.” he blurted it was the first excuse that popped into his head. “No you are not,” she yelled,” You are going upstairs to get ready!”

Linguist Lorenzo Dow Turner studied the amalgam, discovering African ‘loanwords’ therein (Kelly, n.p). Slaves brought from West Africa’s Rice Coast witnessed fragmentation of their original languages and, as they “fused with the dominant English, Geechee emerged as a distinctive dialect (Kelly, n.p.).” Its Africanisms embedded in modern Southern vocabulary, speakers of this hybrid Creole language preface sentences with preverbal markers, including “uh,” which highlight progressive aspects (“Linguists…”). Sea Island Creole English violates norm prescriptions because as a woman, I don’t meet the societal prerequisite of ‘speak prettily.’ Moreover, I’ve found non-Gullah folks as prone to receive a native speaker’s paralanguage as haughty

African American vernacular traditions have been around for many centuries and still cease to exist in their culture. The vernacular traditions of the African Americans started when slaves were existent in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. It is believed that the slaves spoke a mix of Creole and partial English, in which they had to create in order to communicate between them discreetly. The vernacular traditions originated from the way the slaves lived their lives and their creativity. The relationship between the slaves and their masters, were very weak because the master’s believed that the slaves were inferior to them. It is believed that African American

It is arguable that African American English is a dialect of contemporary American English. While AAE is different and is easily distinguishable from Standard American English, the two dialects still share similarities and are forms of vernacular English. As AAE stems from and shares many linguistic patterns with Creole and other African languages, it is possible to argue that AAE is in fact not related to contemporary American English at all. However, I feel that the different influences on language are simple markers of regional variation and not enough to fully

This course focused on a numerous languages that were undergoing change. The simplest and most relevant for many Americans are the changes that are occurring in English. America is a great melting pot of different people and as such English’s multiple dialects reflect cultural diversity. One of the most studied and still not understood dialects is African American English. The point of contention between the ideas for the origin of African American English is whether it was based on an existing dialect in the south or if it was creole of English and different West African languages. Either way this is an example of a rapid language change that has persisted over time. It is illogical to believe that the slaves who were forced to learn English did not incorporate some of their own language. How else could they have communicated before they fully understood English. An example of slower language

“I didn't know you were here” (Fitzgerald, 1922:2). ("Oh, 'scuse me" implies that she is really sorry for just barging in, without first knocking (Fitzgerald, 1922:2). Julie: "Oh, hello. I'm giving a little concert - (Fitzgerald, 1922:2).

I am going out on the doorstep, to get you some new—green grass—I shall pick it down in the corner, where you and I used to sit, and have long fancies. And perhaps the dear little grasses were growing all the while—and perhaps they heard what we said, but they can't tell!