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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
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Difference between 'you are' and 'you is'?

What is the difference between 'you are' and 'you is'?
I know their meaning is almost the same, but is there any difference? When do people say 'you is'?

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That movie is set in Mississippi in the 1960s. You are hearing African American Vernacular English, a creole that developed among the enslaved black people of the American South, still spoken even today in modified form. "You is" is not standard English and is a glaring difference between it and AAVE.

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  • That movie is set in Mississippi in the 1960s.
  • You are hearing African American Vernacular English, a creole that developed among the enslaved black people of the American South, still spoken even today in modified form.
  • "You is" is not standard English and is a glaring difference between it and AAVE.
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That movie is set in Mississippi in the 1960s. You are hearing African American Vernacular English, a creole that developed among the enslaved black people of the American South, still spoken even today in modified form. "You is" is not standard English and is a glaring difference between it and AAVE.
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You can read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American_Vernacular_English
And the opera Porgy and Bess used this dialect.

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