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The very first question, about speakers of AAVE (African-American Vernacular English, the scholarly term for the dialect popularly referred to as "ebonics") being unable to do math because their language can't handle it, is tied into the biggest questions linguists face.
One need only read the academic papers published in linguistic journals to be convinced that, notwithstanding their specialty, linguists at large are incapable of writing simple, expository, declarative sentences without resorting to turgid syntax, obscure vocabulary, and uncompromising sesquipedalianism.
Everyone has his own private view of how language works, an observation seldom offered by linguists, even those who touch on the subject of idiolect.
At the other extreme, some linguists in the late 1960s and early 1970s argued that almost all aspects of meaning in language ought to be explained by semantic rules in the grammar.
To us, as linguists, this is familiar and noncontroversial.