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Speaking as an African-American male I can say I've spoken both for a long time. When I’m around friends and family I speak AAVE and when I’m around ‘judgment
by cvjones360 13y ago
Speaking as an African-American male I can say I've spoken both for a long time. When I’m around friends and family I speak AAVE and when I’m around ‘judgmental others’ and for business purposes I speak American English.
- chimeracoder 13y agoI believe the scientific name for this is 'revertigo'[0] : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n74O3GXRtbY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n74O3GXRtbY ([0]It's not really - it's a line from HIMYM - but the video clip is a good depiction of it anyway, if you watch the whole thing).
- spolsky 13y agoThe scientific name for this is actually 'code switching' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code-switching http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code-switching)
- gchpaco 13y agoCode switching is actually when you wander between two or more languages in the scope of a single conversation (which is downright weird to listen to if you speak only one; girl I knew would wander between Russian and English conversing with her mother and I would try like the devil to follow when she started in Russian and eventually realize that it wasn't some weird English words). Based on my own (small) experience with it in English and French it's sometimes easier to find the word you're looking for in the other language; this only happens to me when I'm trying to speak English in public after I've been speaking French for a while tho. The grammar gets ... complicated.
- joshrotenberg 13y agoSpanglish is an interesting example of this, and I hear it quite a bit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanglish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanglish
- cvjones360 13y agoNot really, I guess I should have added that I speak AAVE when I meet some African-Americans for the first time.