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My website of choice for this piece of work is www.BET.com, BET is an entertainment sight aimed towards African Americans, as BET stands for Black Entertainment Television. The sight promotes and features mainly black artists and celebrities. It can be found on the internet, but it also has its own channel TV.
The general site is predominantly written in Standard English, but I did find one blog within the sight which used AAVE, the blog “Playa Hater” uses AAVE by dropping the “er” on the end of Player. But the rest of the blog uses SE, which is unfortunate because I think that it would be interesting to read an entire blog from the perspective and writing of AAVE. I think that the title uses AAVE for a couple of reasons; first, it could be used to draw in more African Americans because they can easily relate to this type of speech and language use. This title could also be used to draw in white Americans also because they know that they are on a predominantly black site while on BET.com, and they may find it cool to read a blog that is titled in AAVE when most of the sight is in SE.
I did not expect BET.com to be so thoroughly written in SE, none of the editors write anything, even titles of articles, in AAVE it seems. But I did see some AAVE in blogs that are affiliated with BET.com but not directly on BET.com. In the blog “Hip Hop vs. America” I found a post titled Trick Daddy’s Law, in it I found the following quote.
“ There’s gonna be a lot of nervous people at the inauguration, but there ain’t nothing to be scared of. There were people who were scared if Barack became president that something would happen to him. Barack already got more secret service than any president in history”
There are a few referenced to AAVE in this quote. In the first sentence the author uses the word “gonna” instead of “going to”; this is a quality of AAVE because it is a shortened and condensed version of SE. Another reference to AAVE is “ain’t”, where is SE it would have been “isn’t” or “is not”.
“Those people who are scared are the people that were content with being on that level that they was on. The rest of these people, we’re not scared. We are ready and willing to live and die for a better future for our kids. All races and nationalities, it’s gonna be so historical that it scares you.”
In this quote from the same post, the author uses “they was on”, which is a quality of AAVE, and considered poor grammar by SE standards which suggests that it should have been “they were on”. The AAVE form of this is referring to the past tense incorrectly. The author again uses “gonna” instead of the correct SE version “going to”. This article is mainly directed towards African Americans who can directly relate to this sort of speech while most white Americans don’t know how to correctly speak AAVE.