NOUN
- a nonstandard form of American English characteristically spoken by African Americans in the United States
How To Use AAVE In A Sentence
- AAVE is like Finnish in that it has a separate copular verb of negation meaning ‘not be’, pronounced ain't, and you need that here.
- And since an old friend and recent commenter had put African-American Vernacular English/Ebonics (I’ll just call it AAVE) in my mind, the story came at just the right time to convince me to click on it. I don’t care if you don’t like it, it’s a fact « Motivated Grammar
- For all the "heterogeneity" the Black population in the US may have and I know that, linguistically at least, there is real and heterogeneity in African-American Vernacular English/AAVE, even though to most ears it sounds like one common dialect, it's nothing compared to the broad spectrum of human diversity Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America have to offer. On "diversity purists" and "vulnerability to stereotype threat."
- They warm my heart somethin 'braave; an' they let the gray mosses cling to 'em an 'the dinky blue butterflies open an' shut their wings 'pon 'em, an' the bramble climb around theer arms. Lying Prophets
- AAVE aka ebonics aks Black English was spoken neither by Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
- AAVE aka ebonics aks Black English was spoken neither by Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
- In Hungarian, the zero copula occurs only in the third person, and in AAVE it is not permitted in the first person singular.
- But I’m not pointing this story out solely because it’s interesting or because I think the tense system of AAVE is kind of beautiful. I don’t care if you don’t like it, it’s a fact « Motivated Grammar
- We could argue whether AAVE is a language or a dialect, whether it should be treated as a second language for instructional purposes, or how exactly one proves proficiency in AAVE. I don’t care if you don’t like it, it’s a fact « Motivated Grammar
- I’m not aware of any such structure to the tenses in SAE, and prior to reading the Ficket article, I was completely unaware of them in AAVE as well. I don’t care if you don’t like it, it’s a fact « Motivated Grammar
