I gotta say, this video was exactly what I was looking for. My son sent this to the Family group chat this morning (when he definitely wasn't supposed to be having his phone during school), and after watching it, I immediately subscribed. Not only does Dr. Taylor W Jones use the seal script for the Chinese word "wen" (culture, literature) as his YouTube channel icon, he has a PhD in linguistics and wrote his thesis on regional variation and AAVS (African American Vowel Shift) in African American English (Labov was in his dissertation committee). Sold.
His analysis here is both
