On: North American English Dialects

[underlipton]

An additional note on AAVE's deletion from the author's conception of "American Dialects": this page has been posted to HN before, and each with more than 100 comments has a root comment questioning AAVE's absence.

2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15232381 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5666736

To go 10 years with the same complaint repeated over and over seems to indicate a fundamental failing.