Kool A.D.'s Dandy Textual Analysis

Kool A.D., Uneducated Father or Literal Genius?

In his article, "How To Pay For A Baby", Kool A.D. uses different sorts of linguistics to convey his feelings towards the subject of having a baby. At first, he keeps his language somewhat simple, using phrases such as "Which sucks, because money is wild fake." Showing a recurring informal theme throughout the article. Kool A.D. discusses the costs of taking care of a baby while continuing to make use of this colloquial slang to communicate with the reader. "Asking money to make your stupid movie or s***** album you're asking that people help you keep a tiny human being alive until it's forced to be enslaved by capitalism, like the rest of us" Typically, a person using this sort of English is regarded as uneducated, but Kool is able to express advanced and smart ideas through this style of speech, turning the so called uneducated sociolect onto its' head. To add onto this display of awareness, he uses a break in his original dialect, a code switch, to use somewhat more formal words is his writing, while also keeping the informality used in the start; "Bottom line is that babies are money pits… when you have a kid the hustle sector of your brain expands" after giving his rant and warnings about money and the obstacles people might encounter as new parents, he changes the tone he uses while giving advice. The advice is more likely to stick with the reader when they realize this change of tone. Using a certain carefree dialect to set one mood through the article and then bringing a slightly more serious insight brings emphasis on what he says at that point. If this was planned it shows that Kool A.D. is even smarter than dialect lets on...