Are there different regional accents with Black English or Ebonics?

[jeffk]

Probably a stupid question but I don’t know the answer.

After watching a number of world star fight videos I notice the same slang and vocabulary words are used in many of them. It does not seem to matter what city the videos are filmed the same words and slang are used.

Today’s Mcwhorter article on Aoc code switching points that people who aren’t black also can code switch and talk Black English. I see that in the world star videos.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/a...io-cortez-code-switches-black-english/586723/



My question is, can people hear different accents with Black English and know where a person is from? I cannot hear different accents with the Black English in world star videos and do this.

With what I will call American English I can tell if someone is from Boston vs California, can people hear accents with Black English and tell regional differences?

 

[Alphaboy]

Do black people from different regions have their distinct vernacular, lingo, and accents or are they all the same?

Idk, what are you leaning toward?

 

[Vitor CroCop]

 

[HHJ]

Southern blacks and their slang are way different then nyc negros,my dude. Deadass.

 

[jeffk]

Do black people from different regions have their distinct vernacular, lingo, and accents or are they all the same?

Idk, what are you leaning toward?

Ebonics or whatever the right term is isn’t necessarily spoken only by black people and all blacks don’t speak it. And most blacks who speak it can also speak what I will call American English in a different setting.

I think you may have not understood my question.

 

[SmilinDesperado]

 

[blitzk]

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

All I know is that black people in Cleveland sound different than black people in Columbus

 

[Organic Damage]

Not as dumb a question as some people are making it seem.

There are grammatical similarities that underpin different regional variants of black vernacular english. If you consider most of the black people across the US were concentrated in the south southeast at one point, before dispersing more widely, it makes sense.

Of course regional idioms are going to differ, but constructions like "It be that way" (temporary condition) versus "It bees that way" (permanent condition) are probably pretty universal.

 

[DragRacer]

Because the black folks in Columbus are mostly imports.

All I know is that black people in Cleveland sound different than black people in Columbus

 

[HunterSdVa29]

i'm not sure it's the accents as much as the lingo/jargon that gives regional differences away

 

[Vitor CroCop]

 

[Big Tim]

The Blacks have been talking "jive" since I was a kid..... And I'm old as Hell.

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

Because the black folks in Columbus are mostly imports.

Interesting, never noticed. Though I haven't lived in Ohio in nearly 16 years

 

[Protectandserve]

There is a dispatcher I work with that came from San Bernardino County. Back in the 90s they sent their dispatchers to an Ebonics Course so they could understand callers on 911.

 

[SmilinDesperado]

Not as dumb a question as some people are making it seem.

There are grammatical similarities that underpin different regional variants of black vernacular english. If you consider most of the black people across the US were concentrated in the south southeast at one point, before dispersing more widely, it makes sense.

Of course regional idioms are going to differ, but constructions like "It be that way" (temporary condition) versus "It bees that way" (permanent condition) are probably pretty universal.

Lol it's a dumb question because 1, Sherdog is probably like 95% white dudes, and 2, there's different regional sayings for black people, just like there are for white people. Language is always evolving.
There are some words and phrases more commonly used in some areas, but with mass communication the way it is, it's pretty easy for people to pick up the same words and phrases despite living across the country from each other

 

[bref]

The Blacks have been talking "jive" since I was a kid..... And I'm old as Hell.

Your first sentence very clearly confirmed you were old as hell. No need for the follow up explanation.

 

[gannima]

The difference in accents between a black dude from New Jersey and a black dude from North Carolina is just as stark as it is between two white dudes from the same places.

Accents and lingo vary from region to region as well as city to city just like it does with white folk.

 

[Amerikuracana]

In Canada they often just speak the language normally.. So there's that.

 

[pookiyama]

Word choices.

As someone from the Bay, i can tell with 100% certainty if someone is also from the Bay when im out of state.