Relationships with People Who Use Fake Words or the Wrong Words--Often: "Converse" or "Conversate" that is the question:
We all love and appreciate ebonics, and it doesn't matter what ethnicity you are because everybody borrows from black culture. Heck, at times I wish I could just make up words and set them out in the universe to gain popularity (when you have degrees in English less people challenge the authenticity of the words you use...ha!), but I can't. I don't have a problem with ebonics, slang, pidgin English, or any other standard language deviation its when people champion the cause of made up words that I have a problem with. For example, "conversate" is constantly used in place of "converse", and thats the ish that feds me up...lol. The truth is it doesn't necessarily irritate me...it just makes me feel sad and then I want to go into correcting mode (again...English major here). It's not that I am "too good" to misspeak...if you know me then you know that although I have a type A personality I make mistakes, albeit rarely--but mistakes ...