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More on African-American Vernacular English, aka ebonics, which derives from a suite of creoles developed during the transAtlantic slave trade, on Wikipedia.

Talking like a pirate, while containing some creole, is more like lower-class Elizabethan English. It's a form of speech that's preserved mostly in the movies.

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