@bluecrackk@HolyNolzy@Soulja2s@1234dakat@aavenb That's just not what I said at all?😭 I said that other races might pronounce this as "dis" NOW because it's been popularised by black people as a part of AAVE, because they originally began phonetically spelling "this" as "dis"
@bluecrackk@HolyNolzy@Soulja2s@1234dakat@aavenb Not trying to be rude or anything but how are you gonna tell black people what they created "dis" for? Have you ever heard black Americans speak?
@bluecrackk@HolyNolzy@Soulja2s@1234dakat@aavenb That's also not really what an abbreviation is. An abbreviation is specifically used to contract or shorten a word to save time and/or space. That's not what "dis" is. It just so happens to be shorter, but that doesn't mean it was intentionally shortened to save time or space
@bluecrackk@HolyNolzy@Soulja2s@1234dakat@aavenb That's exactly what he's arguing for though? They aren't supposed to be examples of abbreviation they're supposed to mirror how some black people pronounce things