African American Vernacular English | Morgan Gill | TEDxYouth@RMSST

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  • Опубліковано 5 лип 2024
  • Morgan touches on the origin of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and the biases people have toward people who use it. She compares AAVE's structure to the accepted English language and breaks down its meaning in different contexts. I am a student researcher at Rockdale Magnet School for Science and Technology, a self-proclaimed book-lover, Oxford comma enthusiast, and avid Jeopardy player, with a passion for knowing everything about everything. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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  • @paigebradbury6746
    @paigebradbury6746 4 роки тому +539

    DID SHE JUST SAY SHE WAS ONLY IN GRADE 9? AMAZING. GO OFF SWEETIE

    • @yellowsunshine4157
      @yellowsunshine4157 3 роки тому +7

      Would be nice to have more teens like her

    • @dbgvideos6133
      @dbgvideos6133 3 роки тому +2

      Another sjw, like all things with liberals, get them while theyre young

    • @ReubMann
      @ReubMann 3 роки тому +11

      @@dbgvideos6133 bro chilllllllllllllllllllllllllll its 2021 not 2016 broooooooo

    • @eloneverett4318
      @eloneverett4318 3 роки тому

      you prolly dont care but if you guys are stoned like me atm you can watch all the new movies on instaflixxer. Been streaming with my gf for the last couple of days xD

    • @brandonpaul5000
      @brandonpaul5000 3 роки тому

      @Elon Everett Yup, I have been watching on instaflixxer for months myself :)

  • @realeques
    @realeques 3 роки тому +421

    she was very nervous but i know how hard it is to speak in front of an audience. good job! u go girl!

    • @amari5351
      @amari5351 3 роки тому +4

      she was more confident than me :/ but she did AMAZINGGGGGGGG

    • @lunarrust3870
      @lunarrust3870 3 роки тому +1

      She's in 9th grade.

    • @nickangelogabrielarjon2901
      @nickangelogabrielarjon2901 2 роки тому +3

      She doesn't look "very" nervous. But I agree she did a good job

  • @heavysunlight5161
    @heavysunlight5161 4 роки тому +297

    This is so well done! The speaker seemed nervous but they killed it.

    • @TDragonus
      @TDragonus 4 роки тому +22

      @Josue2018 If "TedxYouth" is any indicator, she's probably just a bit nervous, likely not having done this too much before. I remember my college public speaking class, we had to tell 6 speeches over the curriculum to the entire class, and I was a nervous wreck my first few.

    • @mohommedsoumaoro9140
      @mohommedsoumaoro9140 4 роки тому +15

      Yea she was nervous but fought past it and did a good job

    • @arthas640
      @arthas640 2 роки тому +1

      Regardless of her age or public speaking skill I can hardly blame her. Her mic kept malfunctioning and people seem to be walking around her stage and that can throw off even a skilled public speaker

  • @kaykaycp3fan
    @kaykaycp3fan 3 роки тому +88

    I’m a graduate student at USC writing a research paper on AAE and this 9th grader just gave me a bunch of content 😭 thank you so much! ❤️

    • @christopherfitzharris3117
      @christopherfitzharris3117 10 місяців тому

      Great for you! What do you plan on doing with your degree?

    • @avi7278
      @avi7278 9 місяців тому

      You should probably learn first that it's AAVE

    • @kaykaycp3fan
      @kaykaycp3fan 9 місяців тому +1

      @@avi7278 thanks 😄 I’ll also research “typos”

    • @LilliLamour
      @LilliLamour 8 місяців тому +1

      ​@avi7278 AAE is not wrong. Our language is called AAVE, AAE, BAL, Ebonics and AAL. So even though it was a typo, she was right.

  • @elmashotevevo7354
    @elmashotevevo7354 4 роки тому +384

    An excellent explanation, though TED could give her a better microphone

    • @Rickety3263
      @Rickety3263 3 роки тому +13

      The mic is fine. The audio tech should be replaced

    • @Cokebei3grad
      @Cokebei3grad 3 роки тому +1

      They should have placed it a little lower, it sounds perfect when she looks to the right..

    • @warrenmcgreevy4590
      @warrenmcgreevy4590 3 роки тому +2

      TED don’t have anything to do with this particular video because TEDx is independent

    • @Rickety3263
      @Rickety3263 3 роки тому

      @@warrenmcgreevy4590 OH SNAAAP!!😆

    • @kavind1331
      @kavind1331 Рік тому

      @@Rickety3263 -🤓

  • @lw9356
    @lw9356 4 роки тому +180

    she’s so smart.. someone give her scholarship now !

  • @od3910
    @od3910 3 роки тому +43

    People are saying that she looks nervous but dealing with anything going wrong is really hard to do on stage. Her mic keeps messing up and she's handling it like a boss.

  • @saraiyaallen9699
    @saraiyaallen9699 4 роки тому +173

    AM SO PROUD OF YOU HONEY LOOK AT YOUUUUU ! YOU'RE SPEECH WAS AMAZING AHH YOU ARE A WHOLE LEGEND ! GOOD JOB ! ! !

    • @Twizted86
      @Twizted86 3 роки тому +2

      You could learn some things from her, for example.. The difference between Your and You're.. You could've escaped this by using the UR version, I could've dismissed your comment as laziness but here we're. 🤣

    • @raety3941
      @raety3941 2 роки тому

      @@Twizted86 not anyone in universe speaks fluent english, and this could be just typo

  • @manutrivedi1891
    @manutrivedi1891 3 роки тому +106

    Yeah. In india we use our own version of English mixed with Hindi. We actually call it Hinglish. Each part of the country has its unique way of speaking the language. I think thats cool - just like the young lady.

    • @od3910
      @od3910 3 роки тому +3

      I didn't know that had a name that's so cool!

    • @captainaryan26
      @captainaryan26 3 роки тому +8

      It isn't cool. People are really forgetting the meaning of hindi and are including English words.
      वो तो लिखते भी 'aise' है, जब कि हिंदी type करते समय उन्हें 'ऐसे' लिखना चाहिए l

    • @ranz4375
      @ranz4375 3 роки тому +5

      Thats not English. Go on with your hallucination

    • @pixeled9683
      @pixeled9683 3 роки тому +8

      @@ranz4375 so is aave not english either

    • @arjunghanekar6140
      @arjunghanekar6140 2 роки тому

      @@pixeled9683 bhaijaan in logo ka sunna nahi chahiye jab tak aapki english samaj mai aara hoga voh enough hai

  • @kaylenj4860
    @kaylenj4860 4 роки тому +96

    she did such a good job!!

  • @douglasmarinho3653
    @douglasmarinho3653 3 роки тому +105

    Wow, in AAVE they use the double nagative like in my country Brazil as emphasis of the sentence

    • @sandritamec
      @sandritamec 3 роки тому +9

      it is used the same way in Spanish!

    • @U._.D
      @U._.D 3 роки тому +3

      Same way in Turkish, too :0

    • @samwilson5544
      @samwilson5544 3 роки тому +12

      We have some dialects in the UK that do the same 🙂

    • @flyleelee5351
      @flyleelee5351 3 роки тому +7

      And many other languages!!

    • @douglasmarinho3653
      @douglasmarinho3653 3 роки тому

      @@samwilson5544 wow, cool I have no idea that in UK happens the same thing

  • @e6160
    @e6160 4 роки тому +148

    This was very informative and your speech was well written!

    • @chrislinhares7311
      @chrislinhares7311 4 роки тому +2

      She is probably part White.

    • @roseschu5964
      @roseschu5964 4 роки тому +13

      @@chrislinhares7311 what was the purpose of adding that comment lmao

    • @lipamanka
      @lipamanka 4 роки тому +2

      @@roseschu5964 TBH I think Chris Linhares thinks that maybe because she is speaking in GAE, but there is actually no reason for us to believe this.

    • @lipamanka
      @lipamanka 3 роки тому +8

      @Lawrance Ovarabia There's a thing called "bi-dialectal" and "code-mixing" where you can speak more than one dialect. Speakers of AAVE (not AAEG) most likely will already know the grammatical features of their own dialect, and she's educating the audience (mostly white people) about AAVE.

    • @lanzibangli1259
      @lanzibangli1259 3 роки тому +2

      @Lawrance Ovarabia
      Because the Standard American dialect is used formally....?

  • @gwiyeo
    @gwiyeo 3 роки тому +32

    Beautiful video. In the Philippines the official language is Tagalog. But certain regions/groups may also know ilocano, bisaya, or kapangangan, even English, doesn’t mean they’re uneducated or don’t fully know/understand/excel in tagalog, just that they have another way of speaking that connects to their subcultures. A lot of people here commenting think AAVE = not knowing proper English. Talk about ignorance. Wonderful video and I learned so much and it was so unbiased and well done. You’re going to go sososo far in life! Thanks for making this.

    • @jqa16
      @jqa16 3 роки тому

      Coño is killing tagalog 😔

  • @donaldberry4181
    @donaldberry4181 4 роки тому +49

    Thank you! I am doing some research on AAVE and I learned a ton from this presentation!

  • @guppy8073
    @guppy8073 3 роки тому +8

    Extremely impressive, can’t wait to see what she does in the future!

  • @sethlangston181
    @sethlangston181 4 роки тому +5

    After watching the LangFocus video on the topic, I was really fascinated by all the specifics and the intricacies with the grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary of AAVE.

  • @anon_d9256
    @anon_d9256 3 роки тому +44

    She is so cute, I like her
    Btw when someone says "American" I emagine blacks and white together cuz not every African American come from Africa or lived there, well maybe their family or ancestors lived there but even if they were and they still are part American in them that doesn't make them less of an American

    • @U._.D
      @U._.D 3 роки тому +11

      Exactly, just like how most white Americans are Euro-Americans although they are never called that.

  • @cghynd
    @cghynd 3 роки тому +2

    WOWWW that was incredible!! So much wisdom and knowledge, you go girl!! I really enjoyed learning from you!

  • @rhxxnxnclxrk1505
    @rhxxnxnclxrk1505 3 роки тому +34

    this is very informative! i wanted to learn more about AAVE and the first video to pop up showed a white guy talking, and theres no way im learning bout my language from a white boy. she did an amazing job!

    • @oj4499
      @oj4499 3 роки тому +1

      U white too

  • @veetoka
    @veetoka 4 роки тому +17

    Thank you! Great presentation :)

  • @Joel-Monterra
    @Joel-Monterra 3 роки тому +2

    Very well delivered speech and so easy to understand! Love it!

  • @deerlyvague8390
    @deerlyvague8390 3 роки тому +13

    The audience was so dry, it's a very educational and lighthearted and I think their presentation was very kool

  • @kaila1995
    @kaila1995 3 роки тому +2

    I loved everything about this !!!!!

  • @felsenrogers4083
    @felsenrogers4083 3 роки тому +2

    That was a phenomenal presentation, which I learned a lot from... Great job young lady!

  • @cleouesugi9290
    @cleouesugi9290 2 роки тому

    She did fantastic and she's so young! You go girl! Keep up the good work!

  • @niafaith
    @niafaith 3 роки тому +3

    this is my friend morgan and she truly is so well spoken and she’s only 16 or 17 right now

  • @nadinemurtaza1
    @nadinemurtaza1 Рік тому

    I watched this with my 11 year old this morning in Islamabad, Pakistan. And it was by far the best explanation we could find on the internet, despite spending a fair amount of time looking

  • @THEPACK30252
    @THEPACK30252 4 роки тому +8

    Proud of you Morgan! Well done and great subject!

  • @jeffparnell5805
    @jeffparnell5805 4 роки тому +10

    Good job. The outline was logical and the presentation was easy to follow.👍🏽

  • @tyrone1son
    @tyrone1son 2 роки тому +1

    Right on young lady. Thank you! Stay at it, keep teaching.

  • @halimebatihan452
    @halimebatihan452 3 роки тому

    Go Girl!! very informing and loved listening to you

  • @Moonlight-tr7jv
    @Moonlight-tr7jv 4 роки тому

    Amazing! Thank you so much for this!

  • @MrNicoleCherie
    @MrNicoleCherie 3 роки тому +7

    Damn she could teach an AAVE class! I would be there! We need classes on this! Lol it felt super dense and I'm not that educated on English so it was hard to follow but I would still show up to that class!

  • @justinbromell1430
    @justinbromell1430 4 роки тому +13

    Out here representing Magnet good job!

  • @stephaniesieng9325
    @stephaniesieng9325 3 роки тому

    Very good talk! It helps for my studies in languages, thank you!

  • @henry8558
    @henry8558 2 роки тому

    she did a wonderful job explaining this.

  • @palomabrighton9756
    @palomabrighton9756 3 роки тому +1

    So informative !! Thank you !

  • @user-wv5mh2dj3r
    @user-wv5mh2dj3r 4 місяці тому

    Excellent job young lady, wisdom beyond her years. Definitely educated me.

  • @j_lynsation
    @j_lynsation 3 роки тому +6

    🙌🏽🙌🏽ya love to see it

  • @shelleyseagraves9611
    @shelleyseagraves9611 4 роки тому +6

    Very much enjoyed this.

  • @sandritamec
    @sandritamec 3 роки тому +2

    this is so important!

  • @punk622forza6
    @punk622forza6 4 роки тому +8

    Very interesting and informative. Great Job

  • @Rollingstone72
    @Rollingstone72 Рік тому

    Great job and great presentation! 👍

  • @paganjoe1
    @paganjoe1 3 роки тому +1

    Excellent! Great job!

  • @plutospidey
    @plutospidey 4 роки тому +2

    they did amazing

  • @anayahhreee8703
    @anayahhreee8703 3 роки тому +5

    I know I'll never learn how to speak in African American vernacular but I love it

    • @HunterMann
      @HunterMann 3 роки тому +1

      It depends on where you live. If you are in a region or a neighborhood where it is spoken a lot you will pick it up and likely speak it when you were around other people who speak that way. I’ve worked in Jamaica a few times and found it difficult to understand the local patois language, but If I lived there for a year or two I’m sure I would pick it up quickly and learn to speak at some and certainly learn to understand it when it is spoken. Language is a great way to challenge yourself, so you never know maybe someday you will actually learn how to speak in this vernacular

    • @marzouk6270
      @marzouk6270 3 роки тому

      Bruh I'm in the UK and know it from the Internet of course 😅

    • @gicilo386
      @gicilo386 3 роки тому

      @@HunterMann I leve east Africa especially Somalia & I can understand African American English very well

  • @traeharris9865
    @traeharris9865 4 роки тому +2

    Great job Morgan! Well done.

  • @roseschu5964
    @roseschu5964 4 роки тому +15

    A great talk by a great speaker! Hope to see more in the future! Keep it up girlie :)

    • @NarCissisT789
      @NarCissisT789 3 роки тому

      Who says "girlie" 💀

    • @roseschu5964
      @roseschu5964 3 роки тому +2

      @@NarCissisT789 someone who doesn’t have a playlist called “weeb stuff”

    • @GarnetsWeb
      @GarnetsWeb 3 роки тому +1

      @@roseschu5964 !🤣

  • @cautionarycorvis
    @cautionarycorvis 4 роки тому +5

    girl I'm so proud of you omg LOOK AT YOU GO

  • @vilemmar
    @vilemmar 2 роки тому

    Amazing presentation!

  • @theromansareattacking9633
    @theromansareattacking9633 4 роки тому +5

    An amazing presentation from an even more amazing student!

  • @sixfootsix2k2
    @sixfootsix2k2 3 роки тому

    Awesome job. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

  • @patriciailic7199
    @patriciailic7199 4 роки тому +3

    you did a great job!!

  • @izajablonska3531
    @izajablonska3531 3 роки тому +1

    so so so good!!!

  • @heidisheldon7545
    @heidisheldon7545 6 місяців тому

    Thank you so much for this presentation! I am just starting to learn about a AAVE and recognize how important, as a white person, it is to understand and appreciate this dialect. Thank you again for helping me grow in my understanding.

  • @Jaspora25
    @Jaspora25 3 роки тому +1

    Great job!

  • @c.a.renegado2053
    @c.a.renegado2053 3 роки тому +1

    love this young lady

  • @8randomprettysecret8
    @8randomprettysecret8 Рік тому

    Well spoken. Thank you

  • @gomamon15
    @gomamon15 4 роки тому +1

    Great job

  • @hneufvil
    @hneufvil 3 роки тому

    Bralliant topic. And though she seems nervous, she still did good.

  • @erisi6204
    @erisi6204 3 роки тому

    Brilliant talk

  • @SpeakWritePlayinEnglish
    @SpeakWritePlayinEnglish 2 роки тому

    Great explanation!

  • @jaidynanaya9537
    @jaidynanaya9537 4 роки тому +3

    good job morgan!!!!

  • @jtmempo2720
    @jtmempo2720 3 роки тому

    Amazing!

  • @mg5155
    @mg5155 3 роки тому +7

    Speak AAVE whenever you want. It is your right to do so! If you want most people to understand everything you say, that's another matter!
    If I go to a hospital for heart surgery, I don't care what colour or race the surgeon is but if they start speaking AAVE , ain't nobody got time fo' dat!

  • @tylerblake5507
    @tylerblake5507 4 роки тому +2

    Wow im really impressed

  • @keeganeilin8833
    @keeganeilin8833 3 роки тому +5

    so is "he do be lookin kinda fresh doe" an example of occasional tense? I had never heard that phrase before. Really interesting stuff

    • @avantgardeho_6464
      @avantgardeho_6464 3 роки тому +5

      Yes I would say it is be is often used to refer to something occasional so if “he do be lookin kinda fresh” dat meen he always be put together or he always looks nice

    • @chloebenjamin5599
      @chloebenjamin5599 2 роки тому

      Yes.

  • @DavidGomez-mh2op
    @DavidGomez-mh2op Рік тому

    I love her presentation! I feel more informed because of it. I do have a serious question for those of you who have genetic ties to this dialect and its culture.. How do you feel when you encounter an individual that is not of this ancestral decent that uses AAVE and insists that "its part of who they are" and such?

  • @xx_somescenecath0lic_xx888
    @xx_somescenecath0lic_xx888 4 роки тому +1

    Morgan is awesome at speaking!

  • @plederfagella9774
    @plederfagella9774 3 роки тому +3

    I did a urban dictionary and mobbin'
    Means
    "In Cali at least it means to do something with around a dozen other people with an assertive mindset. Often in regards to going to a party or club with liquor and drugs involved. Not necessarily with hostile intentions."

  • @Lindamorena
    @Lindamorena 4 роки тому +3

    Great job hun

  • @jadecall2046
    @jadecall2046 4 роки тому +3

    amazing!

  • @TheFoeminator
    @TheFoeminator 4 роки тому +15

    Wtf is that mic, its so distracting

  • @DeborahHartmanPortland
    @DeborahHartmanPortland 10 місяців тому

    Well presented!

  • @praise777always9
    @praise777always9 3 роки тому

    PROUD!!!!!

  • @greatbad5618
    @greatbad5618 3 роки тому +1

    this is great

  • @sophiabaker1379
    @sophiabaker1379 4 роки тому +4

    All of me...loves your aura! Well done...Second to NONE!
    You are ALWAYS my Pearl.

  • @cynncyth729
    @cynncyth729 3 роки тому +2

    Aks, Ax (ask) is Scots language (Appalachaian/Southern) via the Scots/Scots-irish colonial immigrants.

  • @emmap.7314
    @emmap.7314 3 роки тому

    This was incredibly informative! Thank you for sharing this Ted talk!

  • @ameliapage5504
    @ameliapage5504 4 роки тому +4

    Thank you Kanye. Very cool.

  • @isabellesanderson2068
    @isabellesanderson2068 4 роки тому +4

    This was a great speech!

  • @jayeads
    @jayeads 3 роки тому

    so good

  • @ibrahimmohamed4477
    @ibrahimmohamed4477 3 роки тому +1

    African American is such nice people, All Africans around the world is very nice and helpfull 💞💜💕💝💗❣️🥰👏💪🙂If all people were like them, the world would be a better place really 💓👏👍💯🙂🥰💞💖

  • @frogiy9
    @frogiy9 3 роки тому

    Brilliant

  • @s.3712
    @s.3712 2 роки тому

    really cool video

  • @Chloe-ru2eb
    @Chloe-ru2eb 3 роки тому +1

    i can't really find any info on google about this, but the situational tense is confusing. wouldnt "he be swimming" just mean the same as "he is swimming"?

    • @avantgardeho_6464
      @avantgardeho_6464 3 роки тому +9

      This is funny but more so cause it shows more and more how complex the language I grew up learning it was improper and ghetto but now it is getting Ted talks and being taken mo seriously is he is swimming means present tense meaning he is currently at this moment out for a swim. I’ll give a example of he be swimmin... so what does he like to do for fun
      Oh he be swimmin
      This means he swims for fun but he may not be out for a swim at the moment but it is something he occasionally does, hence occasional tense

    • @buffalonewyorker257
      @buffalonewyorker257 3 роки тому +4

      Yeh if he's swimming at the moment we'd say..."He swimmin".....We generally drop the present tense forms of " to be" except for 1st person singular "I'm" which most of us in vernacular pronounce as "Um." He be swimming is not present or present progressive. It merely indicates habit. Pronoun + be + present progressive = AAVE habitual.

    • @karosonj1
      @karosonj1 3 роки тому

      I think "He swimmin" would be equivalent to "He swims"
      "He be swimmin" would be equivalent to "He is swimming".
      The first is Present Tense and the second is Present Progressive, if I understood correctly.

    • @summerraine3934
      @summerraine3934 3 роки тому

      @@karosonj1 no. That’s not it. Refer to the 1st answer for the correct conjugation.

    • @Fari-100
      @Fari-100 3 роки тому +2

      In some regional versions of AAVE, "he be swimmin" can be simple present tense. Like answering the question, "where he be?" But in most cases it's occasional or habitual (continuous) meaning "he doin it now, and he all the time doin it" 😄 so context is very important in AAVE. It's actually very African in sentence structure and grammar rules

  • @fathergoose9572
    @fathergoose9572 4 роки тому +1

    Yes
    good video

  • @Winnie47f
    @Winnie47f 3 роки тому +4

    this needs more views

  • @rejoice5HT
    @rejoice5HT 4 роки тому +11

    3:20 Omg, the Freudian slip. Priceless!

  • @nab.7250
    @nab.7250 4 роки тому +3

    I love their accent 💛

  • @terryholmes1325
    @terryholmes1325 3 роки тому

    Great show . The youth in America are far more intelligent than adults give them credit . Maybe , in time old America will get out of the way and allow young America to emerge .

  • @jerichosales3489
    @jerichosales3489 3 роки тому +1

    🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

  • @cccraigslist
    @cccraigslist 2 роки тому

    she killed it fs

  • @rightofcl
    @rightofcl 3 роки тому +1

    I feel like this is stereotypical personally.
    But I understand now based on the history of the dialect.

  • @unsignedmusic
    @unsignedmusic 2 місяці тому

    Why didn’t she present this whole speech in AAVE if it’s so great and legitimate?

  • @AmericanCalabar
    @AmericanCalabar Рік тому

    Our dialect relies less on the technical definitions of words. Instead it speaks to your feelings. It uses tone, facial expression, and non verbals to convey meaning. It paints pictures with words. It easily lends itself to an art form like hip hop. Hip hop also speaks to the listeners feelings. You feel me?

  • @pmonter97
    @pmonter97 3 роки тому

    Cute girl..
    Very well prepared talk ... very well structured...

  • @BasicYutuber
    @BasicYutuber 2 роки тому

    2:55 “putting up the groceries” hehehe

  • @carmens3685
    @carmens3685 2 роки тому

    Good job. However, funny how they're shaming one minute and when I turn on TV now "bling, get your ____ on, side-hustle, and shout-out" are in the MAIN venacular. I just wish we knew the rules we're breaking and were more "bilingual" if ya' know what I mean.

  • @nieyajahaharris475
    @nieyajahaharris475 3 роки тому +1

    Great job baby girl