"It Bees that way Sometime" IAR

-What is Invention?

-Identify what the wide-spread accepted structure of AAE is currently.
-Examine the major similarities and differences between AAE and SE.
-Examine how different people and regions use AAE.
-Organize the basic rules of a language that does not necessarily have a rules set in stone.
-Since there are no real citations within or before the work, we assume the author had to develop the examples used here.
-Find out how to explain the general rules of AAE in an understandable way that anyone can relate to.
-Find out how to educate the general public about how diverse and full of rules AAE is, separating it from thoughts of being a "lazy" or "incorrect" form of English.

What is being Invented?

-AAE has similar concepts involved in SE as well (promoting as its own language).
-AAE is always changing and can be radically different with regional dialects applying.
-Some of the most important qualities of AAE can only be heard.
-Grammar is one of the "loosest" components of AAE, or most diverse.
-The "Be" verb usage is the best example of the grammar diversity.
-Context clues are essential to understanding AAE.
-In AAE, "Been" is used with little or no regard to tense.
-Stress can be added to "been" to relate a long time ago, in AAE.
-Some rules can end up being the same in AAE and SE (such as using emphasis on DID).
-In AAE, there are no -ed endings for past tense.
-A lot of features in AAE are up to the speaker (don't have to be used).
-Most AAE speakers will not follow all the rules, all the time.

-What is being Arranged?

-Rules of AAE vs. rules of SE.
-Examples of sentences in AAE and SE.
-Constraints that exist in AAE vs. SE.
-Different key verbs and rules of AAE.
-Rule to example of rule.
-From one tense to another with a similar word or word form.

-What is Arrangement?

-With the actual key words, they start with "be", which is the most important or diverse type of verb, and work down to the less used ones.
-Comparisons between AAE and SE go from AAE rule to how that is different than in SE.
-Examples of AAE and SE are often given one right after the other.
-Beginning of new key verb usage or rule usually begins with general statement of how common it is, or how it has changed in modern society.

-What is being Revised?

-Allow teachers to understand AAE, and where their students are coming from when they speak.
-Allow the general public to get a basic understanding of how diverse and expansive the rules of AAE are.
-Show exactly how complex AAE is, by writing in a style that produces an overwhelming amount of examples, making a strong point for it being a separate language.
-Drop the image of AAE being an "informal" way of speaking, and praising it for its diverse rules (such as triple and quadruple negatives).
-Relay the idea that AAE evolved rules separate from SE, and is not just dropping rules from it.

-What is Revision?

-Gives examples of AAE that are easy to relate to in SE.
-Closes with a poem by Langston Hughes, which illustrates how the points conveyed in AAE can be understood outside the AAE speaking realm (in a humorous way).
-Gives some historical information about AAE, and shows that some of its rules are actually things from the original "Colonial English" that were dropped over time in SE.