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Originally Posted by Queen of the Ryche
I understand regional accents, and regional dialect when certain items exist in one area but not another (e.g. grits), but I don't agree with bastardization of language just to create your own special "dialect".
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AAVE speakers have been isolated from mainstream society for the largest part of the last several hundred years. Their speech has aggregated a lot more things like "grits" than other white southern english speakers. An accent is by definition a dialect, IIRC. They didn't intentionally change their speech patterns to create their own dialect/language.
I'll point to
this article again for those that would like a decent short description of how AAVE/Ebonics was formed.
Here is a surprisingly long list of englishes.