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Come.

Listen to the way you and your fellow country men and women speak

and across this nation you hear a veritable symphony of the English language.

Here's one. It's the language of the bar language. Here's one.

It's the language of the barber shop, the beauty shop.

It's the language that you sing your praises to God in,

right? And I don't know, you know, no black person who won't know what I'm saying if I say,

don't nobody don't know Jesus can't tell me nothing about him. They know what I've said.

And they understand that there's a bunch of double negatives in there, which is a hallmark of the language.

That's Professor Robin Alva Marcus of George Washington University describing Black Vernacular

English on a B.E.T. Special. Here's another one. This is a teenager describing his twist on the language.

Well, you see the way I've been here in Los Angeles, I've now what's is more Spanish.

You can speak Espaniel and then English at the same time,

you know?

And here's Elder Florence Painter from Sandy Bay Ojibwe First Nation,

talking about language and names.

I speak Ojibwe and I also wanted to acknowledge,

acknowledge my my spirit name, which is Blue Thunderbird Woman and also the clan that I belong to.

This is so wonderful. We could do this all day, but let's just wrap up with a few more.

Hello, I have a ring or may take warher I'd like to sell.

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