The Central Pro/Pre/Per Scriptivisor

[Dave Monroe]

My question is, just how many people who demand that
everybody in These You-Knighted States speak not only
English, but "Standard English," actually speak and/or
write it themselves?  The best I can say is, I read
English, I'm at least capable of writing it, but I
generally talk American.  And this reminds me of an
aside in a Bruce Sterling short story in which someone
on a Japanese film crew filming a remake of Kurosawa's
Throne of Blood on location in Scotland (...)
complains that he can't understand the locals.  A
Bollywood colleague sympathizes along the lines of,
600 million of us an THEY speak "standard" English? 
In the meantime, I'm in line behind an African
American guy at the sub shop, and between me and him
and the subcontintal Indian girl at the counter, NONE
of us can undersand each other ...   

--- Abdiel OAbdiel <abdieloabdiel at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> "standard english"

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