Congratulations, in your hurry to be contrary

Crap, they're on to me.

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.

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.

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.

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!

Congratulations, in your hurry to be contrary

Crap, they're on to me.

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.

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?

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.

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!