Journal 3-Dialect

PART 1-Harlem Renaissance person
Louis Armstrong was a famous trumpet player and wonderful singer.  He was one of the first African-Americans to become famous in a segregated, racist country.  Armstrong helped to make jazz and scat singing more popular.  He helped facilitate the Harlem Renaissance because he lived and performed in Harlem, and he is known by many as the king of jazz.
PART 2-dialect
Pronunciation: "o" is pronounced "a"in many cases (doll becomes dall), "l"s and "r"s become "w"s, and "ie" also is pronounced "a" (friend becomes frand)
Grammar: adjectives after nouns, no verb conjugation, no plural objects
Vocabulary: "down cellar" = basement
                   "sack of potatoes" = child
                   "frindle" = pen or pencil
PART 3-conversation
"Step into my office," said Louis.
"Why be I hew?" asked John the alien.
Louis, shining his trumpet, replied, "What were you doing in your basement at 11:30 last night?"
"Well, I is dawn cewaw just twy ta find my fwindle..." John the alien answered cautiously.
"I have reports that you were attempting to abduct a child and take him to your planet," Louis said, still admiring his shiny trumpet.
"Oh, uh, I think there is some undewstanding serious, because I do nawt knaw why a sack af patatoes is in my cewaw," John said.
Louis scoffed, "Oh, John the alien, you have so much to learn.  I can see everything you do in your 'cewaw'."
"Ahhhh," John said, "is that what that camera shiny do dawn there?"
"Yes, John, it is," Louis replied.
"Do you fand out abaut the...aperation?" John asked apprehensively.
"Your 'secret' plan to study human children?" asked Louis.
"Ah, uh, yah, I guess ya do," said John, wondering about his fate.
Louis, now peering into the trumpet, sighed.  "John the alien, you're going to have to go on trial for attempted abduction."
"Naw, but Louis, I isn't gonna take the chald wittle, I is just gonna study him!" John cried.
Louis turned to John the alien and said, "Oh, I give up.  Go study the children if you must, I am busy creating wonderful music."