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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The only thing I don't like about linguistics coming from the Black community is saying "axe" instead of "ask". God that triggers me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Is that really something that came from the black community though? It was around before North America was colonised.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Not sure. It might not have originated from the black community but it definitely is being used more and more within it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Modern dialectal ax is as old as Old English acsian and was an accepted literary variant until c. 1600.

So older, yes, but also possibly a separate phenomenon unless certain people happened to still use that variant when enslaving people.