How come black people use "were" and "was" incorrectly all the time?

[Lifer]

Do they really have bad grammar?
Or do they do it because they think it sounds cool and ghetto?

Example: I was just watching "Making the Band II" on MTV.
And they say something like -

"Me and my boys was just chillin'.

When the proper way to say it is -

"Me and my boys were just chillin'.

 

[Anubis]

you wanna give an example cause i have no idea what you mean

 

[loup garou]

*ziiiiiiip*

 

[ggavinmoss]

Yup...

 

[boyRacer]

i dont think it's just black people... but theres should be an option for both in your poll.

 

[Anubis]

wheres the option for "you are a moron"

 

[WhiteKnight]

Oh boy, here we go...

 

[Encryptic]

Probably just bad grammar on their part, and it's not necessarily just black people that do this.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Fo shizzle my nizzle, this thrizzle is off the heezy fo sheezy.

/removes low-hanging FUBU pants
/runs around wildly

Dawg, I be all up in this hijackin like a mofo!
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

- M4H

 

[TheNinja]

Well, let me go axe someone that I know.

 

[Pepsi90919]

i just voted anubis is a moron and it's not there?

 

[StageLeft]

Bad education combined with thinking it's cool combined with culture.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

I'm still confused ... was Anubis someone else who got a name change or is it just someone who finally disabled Lurker Mode?

- M4H

 

[Nitemare]

Why don't you ax one of them?

Just the way certain people are brought up, typically poor grammar and pronunciation is linked to your lower income families...this is why you hear it in the inner city and BF Egypt area alot.

 

[mpitts]

People speak differently because of their environment.

If you were brought up in a house who said "cent" instead of "cents" or "ax" instead of "ask", then they are going to say it too.

It's like asking why people from the south say "Y'all". Environment.

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: mpitts
People speak differently because of their environment.

If you were brought up in a house who said "cent" instead of "cents" or "ax" instead of "ask", then they are going to say it too.

It's like asking why people from the south say "Y'all". Environment.

Nobody is saying that it's inbred genetically

So then it should be 'bad grammar' is the answer and not because they think it's cool.

 

[yukichigai]

(Cue highbrow explaination)

It can be traced back to the origins of African-Americans. As the name suggests, they come from Africa. I seem to recall that the majority of languages spoken there do not have different conjugations of "to be" for singular and plural cases, past tense or otherwise. This is why you get phrases like "you straight be trippin', fool," instead of "you straight are trippin', fool." It was how they spoke way back when and it's been passed down ever since. Don't ask me how it became cool though.

Incidentally you can trace a lot of accents like that. For example most of the Minnesota area was settled by Nordic speakers, (Norway, i.e. "Orgen blurgen flurgen" and whatnot) hence the stereotypical Fargo accent.

 

[tweakmm]

How come white people stereotype all the time?

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: Moralpanic

Originally posted by: mpitts
People speak differently because of their environment.

If you were brought up in a house who said "cent" instead of "cents" or "ax" instead of "ask", then they are going to say it too.

It's like asking why people from the south say "Y'all". Environment.

Nobody is saying that it's inbred genetically

So then it should be 'bad grammar' is the answer and not because they think it's cool.

um, inbred?

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
I'm still confused ... was Anubis someone else who got a name change or is it just someone who finally disabled Lurker Mode?

- M4H

Anubis= Theevil1

 

[Lifer]

Originally posted by: Encryptic
Probably just bad grammar on their part, and it's not necessarily just black people that do this.

Very true. hispanics do it as well.

And so do the white people that listen to gangster rap music that think they're black, but they grew up in a normal white background.
so for these people, I think they do it because they think its cool to speak like black ppl.

 

[FeathersMcGraw]

"Incorrect" colloquial grammar doesn't stop at racial lines, but apparently, stereotypes about them do.

 

[tweakmm]

Originally posted by: Lifer
And so do the white people that listen to gangster rap music that think they're black, but they grew up in a normal white background.so for these people, I think they do it because they think its cool to speak like black ppl.

Just like it's cool to speak like stupid AOLers

 

[MichaelD]

3-2-1.....

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: Millennium

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
I'm still confused ... was Anubis someone else who got a name change or is it just someone who finally disabled Lurker Mode?

- M4H

Anubis= Theevil1

Ah.

/votes for "Anubis Sucks"

- M4H