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blog post #9: crafting a spelling system for AAVE/AAL? (part 3)

blog post #9: crafting a spelling system for AAVE/AAL? (part 3)

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In blog post #7: crafting a spelling system for AAVE/AAL? (part 2), i talked a lil bit about the influence that Krio (Sierra Leone) and Kreyol (Ayiti/Haiti) influenced my orthography (spelling system) for what i am tentatively calling Lannèg, a shortened n*ggerized version of the phrase lang Nèg la, or “the Negro tongue/lan…

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