@darius There's that aspect, too!

Though, I may have intentionally left that piece out because I've found it's often too much info to learn and process all at once for somebody who's brand new to all of us.

And that doesn't even touch on the issues that arise when you start considering that every group of people often has their own nuanced communication patterns, and sometimes those communication patterns do not translate well between each other....

Black folks talking about AAVE on Twitter taught me about the concept of linguistic code switching, but I didn't really consciously realize how much I code switch myself in different contexts.... like the difference between talking to a programmer vs. somebody who's less technical.