IAR of "It Bees Dat Way Sometime"

What is invention?
-study of AAE language
-comparing and contrasting AAE to SAE
-translating AAE to SAE and vice versa
-determine rules for AAE

What is being invented?
-AAE has its own specific rules to follow
-There is correct and incorrect AAE
-AAE speakers can generally speak AAE and SAE depending on the situation
-AAE is a proper way to speak even if everyone doesn't realize it
-AAE has a language of words and a style of what to do with the words

What is being arranged?
-language to style
-style to specific sounds
-specific sounds to use of the word "be"
-use of the word "be" to non use of the word "be"
-non use of the word "be" to use of word "been"
-use of word "been" to to use of word "done"
-use of word "done" to use of context or conversation to determine time
-use of context or conversation to determine time to the same verb for all subjects
-the same verb to all subjects to plurality
-plurality to stressing subjects
-stressing subjects to use of negatives
-use of negatives to not every black using the all the rules all the time
-not every black using all the rules all the time to poems by Langston Hughes

What is arrangement?
-one point to the next
-building on previously known things
-examples
-comparing and contrasting
-general to specific

What is being revised?
-idea that AAE has no rules
-proving that AAE is a language
-dismissing beliefs that AAE speakers are "dumb"
-showing how AAE relates to SAE

What is revision?
-examples of conversations
-examples of specific sentences in AAE and SAE
-incorrect forms of AAE compared to correct forms
-use of poet to get final point across
-using both AAE and SAE styles in context