Ebonics: Broken English or a language of its own?
(03/01/17 9:32pm)
“Don’t write how you speak,” “Don’t use double negatives,” “Speak proper English,” are all phrases that I heard a lot growing up. Eventually, as many other African American children inevitably do, I learned how to speak in academic environments, saving my African American Vernacular English, or “Ebonics,” for home and among friends.