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AAVE is commonly "written" now because most writing is texts and social media comments. So even if they luck out and learn "proper" English, people still going to type on their phones the same way they talk.
Even for white kids, most of Gen Z slang is just taken from AAVE, when older people complaining about not being able to read zoomer slang from text or comments, it's just heavily influenced by AAVE.
There's been bleed over for centuries, but with the Internet and social media it's merging faster, which is common for dialects of people that interact frequently
Yeah. But most people "write" online like they speak...
https://commonwealthtimes.org/2021/02/18/aave-is-not-your-internet-slang-it-is-black-culture/
If people followed rules about language, yeah, vernacular would just be spoken speech. But that's not how it works. The rules are made to reflect what people are doing. The rules don't control what people do.
So yes, while the word vernacular commonly meant only spoken words, there ain't nothing stopping nobody from typing like they speak.
And people been doing it for a long time
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A lot of the difficulty older white people have with it, is it's spelled phonetically to maintain those things.
I gave you a link, lots of people have talked about this, it's not just some idea I came up with.
You're still talking like language has to follow the rules.
That's backwards. The rules change to follow the language
Ain't you old enough to have heard "ain't ain't a word because it ain't in the dictionary"?
Well, now it is.
And now the dictionary lists "figuratively" as one of the definitions for "literally".
Insist on following rules, and the dictionary wouldn't update.
I don't know how to put it anymore plainly, I'm sorry if you still don't understand