yeah, i'd say there's a difference between borrowing a word from another language/dialect and using a word that was invented to be racist.
English specifically has a ton of loanwords - "tycoon" is from the Japanese 大君 (taikun) meaning "great prince/high commander", "balaclava" is from the name of a settlement in Crimea (Балаклава), "pet" is from the Scottish Gaelic "peata" meaning "tame animal"... and that's just three words out of thousands, from a little digging on wikipedia.
so i'm not sure if excluding AAVE from contributing to the development of English as a language out of 'respect' is strictly good or not.
now, i don't speak AAVE, and i haven't done any reading about if AAVE speakers mind their vocabulary making its way into broader English slang - if so, then i rescind what i said here. i just think it's interesting to think about.
yeah, i'd say there's a difference between borrowing a word from another language/dialect and using a word that was invented to be racist.
English specifically has a ton of loanwords - "tycoon" is from the Japanese 大君 (taikun) meaning "great prince/high commander", "balaclava" is from the name of a settlement in Crimea (Балаклава), "pet" is from the Scottish Gaelic "peata" meaning "tame animal"... and that's just three words out of thousands, from a little digging on wikipedia.
so i'm not sure if excluding AAVE from contributing to the development of English as a language out of 'respect' is strictly good or not.
now, i don't speak AAVE, and i haven't done any reading about if AAVE speakers mind their vocabulary making its way into broader English slang - if so, then i rescind what i said here. i just think it's interesting to think about.