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I hear you but this is the opposite of what people do with me. They teach me tigre talk and the dominican ebonics and try to get me to speak it and laugh and teach me more and more. My girlfriend only wants me to talk to her like that. She teaches me the dominican ebonics all the time. At the colmado, the guy teaches me it and always wants me to talk like that.

As someone from the inner city in the USA. Ebonics was always something cool to speak. As a kid, it was the cool and in thing almost like kids who would say dude and cool in order to fit in. Sometimes in other languages with thick accents. Or "whatz up" or "wassup yo" or "son" or "kid" and other ebonic words. From my experiences the street talk is just a cool way of talking but it is not formal enough to use in professional or formal environments. There were people whose first language was spanish, french, german, even chines or koreans in bodegas who would speak ebonics in English and it really sounded ok. It was kind of cool. Also, it can be gangster like gangster talk. Lots of immigrants and foreigners talking like gangsters.

In short, you can sound street or cool or whatever by speaking street dominican. It just depends who you do it with and how you do it. Just do not do it in formal environments and make it clear that you are proud to be you and you are not trying to be Dominican but for other reasons.

If I were some white guy from suburbia or someone, no I would not feel comfortable talking ebonics in english or another language but I am an urban minority. It is ok for me to speak improper in a language.