The Central Pro/Pre/Per Scriptivisor

[Abdiel OAbdiel]

--- Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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?  

As I stated previously, none. No one speaks and/or
writes SE. It's an ideal. In the USA the ideal is SAE.
No one speaks or writes Standard American English.  No
one. 

Speaking a little yo? 

A lot has changed since TRP wrote TSI. 

 During the 60s and 70s African Americans made great
dtrides in educational and community development. The
years from 1960 to 1980 produced 80% of all African
American doctorates in the entire history of North
America and a burgeoning African American middle
class. And, the writing of African American students
improved twice as much as their white counterparts
(NAEP, 1980). 
Black English is diverging from Standard English. BEV
is charting a seperate course of development form that
of white dialects in the postmodern era in America.
Contrary to the predictions of frightened white bread
language mavens and the racists sustainers of a savage
inequality in Education, the white PTA, and contrary
to the predictions of the the media, about the impact
of racial integration, Black speach has not been
"de-colorized." 

Speaking  a little yo? 

African Americans are still not writing on a par with
white students. However, Black and Latino students
continue to show consistent improvement. What are we
doing that is working? What isn't working? Pro/Pre/Per
don't work. It ain't about talkin a bit of yo. It's
not about pure and impure usage, neologism, fads,
etiquette. 

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