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Who gives a shit if it's "a dialect" or not? Congratulations, in your hurry to be contrary, you successfully discovered that the word "dialect" is broad, atechnical, and says exactly nothing about the utility or validity of noises that come out of peoples' face-holes. Have a cookie.
Not every jargon or patois is created equal, and sometimes the noises you make that are in a crude approximation of an actual language, make you sound like an ape-creature.
Crap, they're on to me.
What makes for 'validity'? That you speak the language as it was spoken in the political center of 18th century England? Or any other country? What makes Italian more 'valid' than Sicilian? What makes French more 'valid' than the old Gascon language?
I have already conceded that in the present situation, English is more useful than Ebonics, because of literature and the number of people who speak and understand it. But that does not make it better or more valid in an objective sense. Had Ebonics been the language of the center, you would regard what is now standard English as bizarre and sounding like an ape-creature.
Alright, so what makes an 'actual language'? I'm sure you'd sound like an ape creature to someone speaking Middle or Old English. Hell, you even use 'you' as the nominative instead of 'ye'!
Me sound like a caveman when doing that!
What is your motherfucking point? Are you just that in love with the sound of your fingers hitting the keyboard? I can't figure for the life of me figure out what on Earth your deal is with any of this, other than producing an argument out of nothing due to what I imagine must be extreme boredom and a large surfeit of free time.
So you begin an argument, lose it, and then ask "what the point" is?