American English Vs Ebonics Research Paper

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Standard American English vs Ebonics
Going to your everyday typical places such as restaurants, malls, grocery shopping, and coffee shops you see many different cultures. Everyone dresses, eat, and even talks differently. When you approach different crowds you see younger people talk differently amongst themselves or when they speak to others they may sometimes speak full SAE (Standard American English). However, the big topic of controversy of today is how SAE vs ebonics is used today in the modern world. Let say you have a cup of coffee at Starbucks and you see how the cashier talks different to the white and black customers. You notice a difference when the cashier talks to the white customer full out. Then a black customer approach the register and the cashier talks to them in slang and more shorter. This topic would be a very easy topic to discuss and make the paper very valuable, important, and easy to understand.
When people from different cultures here about ebonics they automatically assume it African American slang or just black language. However, ebonics is something pretty much every race does when they speak. Chinese, Caucasian, African American, Latino, etc.
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For an example, Ebonics is shorten and can be considered as slang and not full out. “She cute.”, is a an example of talking in the Ebonics dialect. Instead of talking the full out way we are taught in school in Standard American English. “The dog is cute.” would be a full example of SAE. SAE is not consider to be slang. It has a lack of slang, it has correct spelling and grammar, and also have different pronunciation. The crowd that speak this dialect is even different. Adolescents, working class, and informal people would usually speak in ebonics. Most of the AAVE features (African American Vernacular English) comes from Africa. For an example, “He be workin’” would also he has a job, which would be the full phrase in