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user-inactivated  ·  2823 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: From the vault: African American Vernacular English is not Standard English with mistakes

From the article:

    Linguists never say things like "This is just a dialect, not a language." Rather, they refer to one language as a dialect of another.

This means that all dialects are separate languages, at least according to this article's knowledge of linguistics. I don't know if that's true or not, but they are definitely arguing that AAVE is a dialect of English and also stating that all dialects are separate languages with influences off of their base language.