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In my last couple of posts (here and here), I’ve been looking at the website Gizoogle, which basically translates the language of web content into language that is modeled after the hip-hop artist Snoop Dogg (see the first post for a more thorough overview of what Gizoogle is). In particular, I’ve been trying to answer this question: Is Gizoogle an amusing tribute to Snoop Dogg or is it a racist caricature of African-American English (AAE)? I believe to fully answer such a question we have to look at multiple parts of the issue. So in the first part I examined the stated intentions of the website creators, and, in the second part, I began looking at the language that Gizoogle actually produces and how accurate it is as a representation of Snoop Dogg’s speech and AAE more generally. In that post, I approached this question by simply asking whether Gizoogle made errors in trying to use AAE and Snoop Dogg’s speech style. In this post, I’m going to take a more nuanced approach. Read more ›