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Native speakers do make mistakes, but a persistent “mistake” which is an ordinary feature of how many people speak, is perhaps not such a thing at all.


It came about as a mistake, that's what I'm concentrating on.


But since you've already acknowledged that this is equally true of all dialects (that they form as a result of "mistakes") then why are you concentrating on it especially in regard to AAVE? Hmm...


> why are you concentrating on it especially in regard to AAVE?

What? It's what the post is about.




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