• toastal@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    If we are getting in the weeds here, the might be a more appropriate article since the most valuable is often no longer indefinite. In an AAVE context & using article ‘a/an’, I would assume “you a MVP” omitting the copula, not conjugating it like “you are a MVP”. The current expression feels uncanny.

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      10 months ago

      Oh, nice catch! I’m not American, so don’t have an enormous amount of exposure to AAE. Thanks for the added detail!