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As Banks started to discuss his points on BlackPlanet.com, he states that the title of the technology implies a certain thing. The name of Blackplanet.com would imply that it is a form of technology that is Black specific and not directed toward the mainstream White user. This makes it some sort of "underground community" where users can do certain things not usually acceptable with the mainstream. The website bet.com is similar to Black Planet because it is an acronym of "Black Entertainment Television" and with that title it implies that it is not mainstream and is mainly for the majority of Black people. Sites and technological things such as this provide a safe haven where nobody is judged on your grammar or how you say anything. The ideas spread around are real and you don't have to fake conforming to a higher standard of language.

Obviously, AAVE or some other forms of it will be appropriated(used) within this website when describing their topics of discussion. The website is based off of a television channel and is very popular with Black and White people. The topics of the shows range from news to music videos. While looking in the news blog section of the website, an article with some recent news about Chris Brown caught my eye.

The article was entitled "Chris Brown Finally Releases Statement..." On these articles users are able to comment and share their thoughts about whatever the article is about. I found some examples of AAVE while looking at these user comments. A user named "BRO 4 REAL" said "any man that hit a women is a ~*##$ . An would neva fite a man. so that make chris a ~*##$ ~*##$ ~*##$. AN THAT 4 REAL." These are very simple grammar mistakes in Standard English and some endings of the words are cut off, which is common in AAVE. There are tonal semantics being used with the capitalization of the ending to provide a more emotional emphasis which proves the point further. They are disapproving of Chris Browns actions earlier in the week and are venting their opinions like everyone else.

The next comment that I found was from the user kyonnis. "IM SORRY WAY YALL IS GOIN THROW.THER IZ ALOT OF RUMORS AND TELL THE TRUTH NOBODY NO WATS GOIN ON.BUT THE ONES THAT IHAVE BEEN HEARIN IS SUM SERIOUS STUFF AND IF THEY IS TRUTH RIHANNA U I WRONG……………." The whole comment is capitalized to provide more "gravity" with his/her statements. Like the last quote I used in the previous paragraph, there are a lot of endings of words that are dropped for convenience or laziness. This user is more in the middle of opinions toward the situation. While he seems reasonable in his words, because of the capitalization it seems like he is very emotional if we look at it from a “tonal semantics” point of view.