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AAVE · Culture Wars · LanguageAAVE (African-American Vernacular English) shouldn't be considered unprofessionalAgainst1 comment·Apr 13, 2022
It's unprofessional (AAVE) in settings where communication is key between people. Historically AAVE (Ebonics) has been considered a language group that is a fusion between West African Languages, Early Modern English, French, and dutch. It has it's own quirks, but it is in some ways unprofessional sounding.
For example in the case of some ways it sounds unintelligible to non-native speakers in some cases, and the slang if a person is unfamiliar can throw a person through the loop. It's fine at home and even in public, but when communication is key, it's not.
I am studying healthcare and miscommunication can get people killed, and actually impact how a person might think of you because of biases. You might be the best doctor in the world and your black, but a white person might not want you to treat them because you should to them, unprofessional and in turn they may think you as a doctor is not trained enough.
Also when a white person speaks using Ebonics they often are told by people they are stupid. It's a weird double negative, but no one is really stupid, but rather it comes off as broken English.
I don't view it as a dialect but rather a cultural language. Scots (which I can understand somewhat) is it's own highly developed dialect of English.