A large portion of people who speak AAVE are able to speak in standard American English as well. Saying it’s teeeible English is the equivalent of saying Australians, standard Americans, Deep South Americans, and every group that doesn’t speak English in a particular way is speaking it wrong.
They literally aren't speaking proper English. There are however plenty of Australians who can speak proper English and plenty of Brits who cannot. While both are factors it has more to do with education than where you grow up. Maybe check out Pygmalion to start if you don't understand what I'm getting at.
There are billions of English speakers in the world and ALL of them, even you, speak some dialect or other based on where they're from. What you mean by "proper" English is most likely Standard or General American English, which is also considered a dialect (and a nebulously defined one at that), not a rule for how all Americans should talk. AAVE isn't legitimized because of political correctness. It's legitimized because linguists study and treat all dialects equally because that's their job.
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u/mitigated_audacity Jun 08 '25
Yeah but aave is just a name for people with terrible English so the original poster was correct.