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Ebonics is a media term for a perfectly legitimate dialect of English that linguists and concerned educators call African-American Vernacular English(AAVE) or Black Vernacular English (BVE). What most people think of as ‘good’ English is Standard American English (SAE), a separate dialect. Both of these dialects have evolved separately, with some crossover, and are the products of history, geography, culture, etc. One of the first tenets of linguistics is that all dialects are equally valid, complete, and useful for communication. Someone who speaks AAVE is not speaking SAE incorrectly, they are using a totally different dialect. Yes, it is important to be able to use Standard American English to succeed in the main-stream, which is probably why many African-Americans switch easily between AAVE and SAE depending on context, and many other African-Americans don’t use AAVE at all (Interestingly, white teenagers are starting to use AAVE). Speaking a different dialect isn’t laziness. Is it lazy for white people to use local slang?

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Name : Kelly26584, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 24, City : Atlanta, State : GA, Country : United States, Occupation : teacher, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class, 

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