Is "White Trash" a Language?

I always thought of it as more of a dialect.*

Today someone asked with polite curiosity what my first language is. It's English. Which we were both speaking.

One of us better than the other, apparently. Ah, well.

I wonder what language she thought was my native tongue. Anacolouthian? Fragmentese? Babbleonian? Is Gibberish a real language? It probably was my first language, come to think on it.


*I don't think this dialectical difference makes me unintelligible. The differences are subtle: for example, while many people watch television or teeVEE, I watch "the TEEvee." Always with the definite article. I also say "different than" rather than "different from." And I don't use the subjunctive when I speak and I occasionally use a double negative. Not when I write, just when I speak. Or if I yell at "the TEEvee" when the game's on.

I also like the double modal. As in: "Feemus, you shouldn't ought to yell at the TEEvee."

It's still English, though.

Here's a linguist joke for you:

What's a language?
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A dialect with a gun.

Here's another:

What did the verb say to the noun?
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I'd ask you to conjugate, but I'm afraid you'd decline.

Oh, ha ha ha. My god, I am a nerd. I think I now have to beat myself up.