LINGUIST List 15.2734: NYT: Op-ed Piece on AAVE

This is a message from Karen Chung about the speed with which expressions from AAVE (Afro-American Vernacular English) are being picked up by white speakers.

You can go straight to the link at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/30/opinion/30gates.html

It reminds me a bit of how quickly Dug's idiom is entering Clemmiespeak

B-)