Blog Post 30

In Geneva Smithermans’ article, “‘God Don’t Never Change,’” she explains how students are taught to use grammar in the classroom. She provides three different groups of language usage. The first group of language she explains is white English (WE), the second is blacks using both their dialect and WE (which is referred to as bidialectal, or BD), and the third is standard Black English (BE or BI). In reading this article I was asking myself what each language group meant. Then I started thinking that language really has “changed” it has just been formed into the way it is now throughout the course of the years. This thought came to me because she talks about how Americans were colonized by the British and learned language from them, and blacks learned their language from the whites who enslaved them. It was very interesting to see how language and grammar has been shaped by different cultures and different circumstances. Every culture has a different language and grammar history depending on the circumstances their language was started upon.