/lit/ - Literature

I think one of favorite descriptions in all of literature is when author informs us the character "moves their lips" or "forms the words with their lips" as they read or write. It makes me feel a soft spot for these characters and a form a well-meaning pity.
Ok that was all. Hope you guys are enjoying the books you read.

People often defend AAVE/Ebonics by saying, and I quote, "AAVE has consitent 'grammar rules' [quotes mine] and a consistent 'logic' [ibid] so it is a correct form of English."

My rebuttal is rather to view this "consistency" as consistently making the same mistake. Multiplying 1 by 1 and getting a result of 2 every time [see Terrence Howard, known actor and part-time mathematician] doesn't make it right. You just consistently make the same mistake and show yourself to be ignorant. The same is applied to AAVE. Their "grammar" consistently makes the same mistakes, illustrating their ignorance. AAVE is not a correct form of English. It is rather an obstinate form ignorance, which the larger intellectual world refuses to correct because of muh slavery.