Every time I see an ancient text translated, it always sounds like it was spoken by a classy Englishman from the 1800s. Is there a reason it’s translated that way instead of modern English?

    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      8 months ago

      The only people I’ve ever seen say that shit are teenage white boys with this haircut.

      Honestly I don’t think I’ve ever seen a black person say that shit. But then again I’m not a teenager and I’m only really in predominantly white and Hispanic areas.

      • FfaerieOxide@kbin.social
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        8 months ago

        The only people I’ve ever seen say that shit are teenage white boys with this haircut.

        No doubt. Where do you think they stole it from?

        Today, this derogatory cultural lineage lives on in the appropriation of Black people’s language as an entertainment tool for non-Black people. These public figures’ influence leads to further spread of these speech patterns, indexed in these ways, without acknowledgement of the source and the price paid by Black people who have native fluency in AAVE. Influencers of this caliber have great potential to impact their audience, and carelessly using AAVE without acknowledging its origins will propagate the idea that AAVE is simply netspeak, which leads to the broader population of Non-Black Gen Z speakers using incorrect forms, or completely disregarding the cultural implications of knowing the language