AAE

Otha day I wuz walkin down da street n thinking bout mah ol friend jacksn. We be friends fo long time, then he don wana be mah friend no mo. Me be sad. I been feelin bad. Then I turn tha corna and he be there. He axd me wussup, I sais I be chillin, how bout urself, he sais he cool. I sais im the new manager of my sto. He showd sum respect. He sais he be workin hard , apologozin and all fo not talking for a bit. He sais I be lookin well, wants to chill soon.


Hehehe I just went all out pretending on this one. Hope it doesn’t come off offensive, I used to live in the Bronx for a while, so thought it would be entertaining to play around with this.

At the same time feeling kind of silly for trying to translate something like that.
I Also think that this class has opened my eyes on aae. My ignorant absence of knowledge previous to learning about AAE, has led me to believe AAE was less of a language than the standard. As per treating this as an ESL thing, I don’t know if it’s such a bad idea, unless government is going to use AAE in all formal documents, and Judges in courtrooms, and doctors and all other public employees are going to switch to speaking and writing in AAE , speakers of this dialect should be fluent in standard English, not for any other reason than to simpler communicate out side of their informal surroundings