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[quote=Anonymous]The switching your language style based on who you're with is called code switching. Everyone does it, to varying extents. To answer the OP, I'm black American. It depends on the background. Is that how your son grew up and so it's how he truly talks? If so, in school I wouldn't have seen him as acting phony. However, I did know some white people who I guess just appreciated hip hop culture but by emulating the speech patterns, I thought they sounded really stupid. I wasn't offended except when they (mostly boys) would talk to me in hip-hop slang, which was bizarre because I speak standard American English. I don't think I'd speak to your son unless he's being really over the top about it. Sme people just may think he's weird and obviously acting in a manner that's not natural to him. [/quote]
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