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Imagine criticising someone for using a word despite it having been in the vernacular for years.

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In whose vernacular? I’ve never heard it spoken in person, just seen it on posts by some of the worst people online.

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Vernacular doesn’t need to belong to a person or even a group of people.

If your problem is with the people who say it and not the word itself, that’s a different issue and one that I’m not really interested in debating.

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Vernacular doesn’t need to belong to a person or even a group of people.

Then why do they call it “African American Vernacular English”?

If your problem is with the people who say it and not the word itself, that’s a different issue and one that I’m not really interested in debating.

Who says I can’t have two problems?

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