Why do you think that some educated and non-educated blacks use AAVE pronunciations almost exclusively?

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The idea fo rthis thread was a conversation about the sound od "AX" pronounced instead of "ASK" which is pronounced more like "AsK" with the "S" nearly silent OR the "K" and the "S" have switched places like AKS, Another example would be words which are already plural having "S's" added onto them such as "People's" when referring to more than one person. Or common mispronounciations of words within the culture that rarely happen outside of the culture (90% of the time I am sure the user knows that it is wrong but chooses to use it as a way to connect with the African American listener as a type of emphasis similar to Spanish mixed with an english sentence to emphasize a point between two Spanish speaking people) Examples of this phenomenon are an "SK" sound used for some words beginning with an "ST" sound like "Skraight" for Straight and "Skreet" for Street.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAVE

Answer 1

I believe it to be a combination of things. For one thing it is an act of rebellion. For another it is a means of establishing a separate identity.