African American Language (AAL), like Spanish, was impossible to miss as I spent time inside and outside the classrooms of South Vista. AAL is probably the most studied variety of English in the world, with over forty years of sociolinguistic scholarship investigating when, how, where, with whom, and why AAL has been and continues to be spoken by many African Americans. These decades of scholarship have given us a rich understanding of the grammar, phonology, lexicon, systematicity, and rhetorical traditions of AAL.