This 12-Year-Old’s Girlfriend Told Him That He Made Her Pregnant, And He Had The Best Response Ever

He says he's from the West Indies. He's writing colloquially like folks from Barbados or Jamaica talk. I teach high school and don't worry, African American kids don't write papers like this. Social media is a whole different genre than formal writing.

Darcy, typing "AF" makes you look stupid.

Dude, English is not my native language and even I understood.

1. Language evolves over time. 2. It isn't. It's African American Vernacular English, which has been widely accepted as one of the largest non-standard dialects of American English (though whether it is a dialect or a creole is a debate for another thread. I tend to fall on the creole side of the debate).

I'm from Barbados and they do talk like that. Even if he has the British accent, he's still gonna have a West Indies side in him. We write proper English but that is just OUR dialect when talking.

Meh, people use slang all the time but that doesn't mean that they can't speak formal english. I'm an Arab immigrant and my speech patterns and vocabulary can be all over the place, but that doesn't mean that I can't write a damned good essay when I want to.

No, Allan Lomax; Americans think he's from Britain

It's called writing with style, bro.

manup and get an accent bruh...skrrrt.

hahahahaha

I'm not an abstinence proponent but your statement is incorrect. "Preaching" abstinence is not about avoiding the discussion of sex---it's a philosophy that suggests NOT having any sex is the only and correct method of birth control.

its also probably not even true

None of them sound educated at all.

S**t shaming is calling sexist terms for behavior that SHOULDN'T BE SHAMED. Cheating is a valid reason to be angry. F**k telling b******t stories, and especially over Twitter, but the kid in the story did better than many people. Yeah, Hoe is still a sexist term, but the 12 year old wasn't educated about that and was simply following programming at that point. If you knew anything about psychology and biology you would know this kid is not at fault. Now if you call someone a hoe just for having a lot of sex, then that is sexist and shaming, sure.

He's english with carribean background what does american have to do with it?

"s**t shaming"? She cheated on him and got pregnant and blamed it on him. Please tell me why SHE is the victim here? She's being shamed not for having sex, but for cheating and lying. You and 27 other people need to stop looking for an excuse to get angry on behalf of the person who's in the wrong in this story.

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she is a s**t

He said he apologise if the grammar sounds bad he's paraphrasing what he supposedly said as a child I would hope as an adult it would be a lot better

Hooked on ebonics worked for me!

To say that you can't understand the reading only illustrates the limitations of your comprehension skills. I read it and understood it just fine as dis pretty much everyone else. You are among the few who are not capable of comprehending it.

It's trendy to be 'true to your roots' and use ebonics nowadays I guess. Although to be fair, why is American/British English considered to be the only 'correct' English? Ebonics has its own structure and grammar from what I understand.