We have now begun Zora Neale Hurstons' novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, in class, which is written primarily in African-American vernacular English.
"African duh what what now?" you may be asking. African-American Vernacular English is a dialect of English spoken primarily by African-Americans, especially in the south. The dialect resembles the common English language but places emphasis on different sounds within a word, and uses a different grammar structure than we are accustomed to. To many, AAVE is deemed "bad English;" however, many organizations and group are recognizing it as its own formal dialect
