Monday, October 20, 2008

Summary of Primary Research


A lot of people speak standard English because they need to talk to people in standard English at school, work,  or at a friends house to be respectful. Some people speak standard English all the time because they are so use to it.

Most of the people speak African-American dialect because of the people there around and the environment. All because mostly everyone there around speak African-American dialect. So it has became an habitual to them. Others didn't speak it at all because they didn't know how to or wasn't use to it.

In conclusion  to this question everyone said they thought it was slang; like what's up?Others said they didn't know what it meant.

A lot of the people were using the same slang words like What's up, Shawty, finna, gonna, naw, What it do, and brah.

When i asked this question most people said they spoke African-American dialect to friends, family, and people who spoke it.

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