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Ologies with Alie Ward

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African American English Is Just Poor Grammar

There's a thing in african american english that's optional called zero copula. You don't need and is there, and that's fine, um. But you can't just do that with every subject. So you can't say like, i cray. When you get white people like mocking this, they'll say things like, i Craya. I'll see it appropriated, and i'll cringe a bit. And sure enough, i found a tweat posted seven hours ago about someone homesteading chickens with the words, iCray. Now, according to herbao,  this person is a blond halistic dula from michigan who gardens.

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