The Central Pro/Pre/Per Scriptivisor

[Abdiel OAbdiel]

--- MalignD at aol.com wrote:
> So if someone advocates prescriptive grammar he's a
> racist?   

You're not a racist. 
You advocate prescriptive grammar. 
I don't advocate prescriptive grammar. 
I'm not a racist. 

Who is a racist? 
Not you. 
Not me. 

>Fuck you.
 

Myths and misconceptions about language and negative
attitudes toward language diversity are fostered in
the school and perpetuated in the general populace by
the public school experience. Schools and teachers are
seen as guardians of the national tongue. Condemned as
immoral, ignorant, and inferior are all those who
depart from the idealized norm of Standard English
which, as research so powerfully demonstrates,
teachers and language mavens themselves preach but do
not practice. 





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