And respect to every fucking activist out there opposing the eviction. Do EVERYTHING you can do to help them NOW. A journalist unfortunately died as a result of the eviction and he was a good friend to the occupiers.
It’s called copula deletion, or zero copula. Many languages and dialects, including Ancient Greek and Russian, delete the copula (the verb to be) when the context is obvious.
So an utterance like “you a bitch” in AAVE is not an example of a misused you, but an example of a sentence that deletes the copular verb (are), which is a perfectly valid thing to do in that dialect, just as deleting an /r/ after a vowel is a perfectly valid thing to do in an upper-class British dialect.
What’s more, it’s been shown that copula deletion occurs in AAVE exactly in those contexts where copula contraction occurs in so-called “Standard American English.” That is, the basic sentence “You are great” can become “You’re great” in SAE and “You great” in AAVE, but “I know who you are” cannot become “I know who you’re” in SAE, and according to reports, neither can you get “I know who you” in AAVE.
In other words, AAVE is a set of grammatical rules just as complex and systematic as SAE, and the widespread belief that it is not is nothing more than yet another manifestation of deeply internalized racism.
This is the most intellectual drag I’ve ever read.
god i had a weird dream that the Mcelroy brothers started doing their own paranormal adventure show but it was just them going to haunted places and rating them based on how haunted it was.
At the end of the show Justin was like “yeah it’s a haunted hospital so it loses points for being overdone but Griffin got possessed and ghosts tried to kill Travis so that brought in some fun and flair. 7/10″
aragorn: a relatively neutral rivendell accént. first learned from hanging out with elladan and elrohir so it’s kind of vulgar some of the time because they’re uhhhhhhhhhhhh teenagers
elrond slams the door shut and whirls around to face his children. “who taught aragorn how to say fuck?” he demands.
arwen and the twins eye each other suspiciously because it honestly could have been any one of them
legolas: my url speaks for itself. he’s howdy at best and completely unintelligible at worst.
“how are you today?” frodo asks
“i’m finer’n frog hair split four ways,” legolas says, baring his teeth in a smile
“why can’t you just speak to me in normal elvish like a normal person,” frodo asks, ripping up his a-z elvish dictionary
galadriel: an absolutely disgusting lothlórien accent
valar apologist 