re Re: re Re: SLSL language

[Malignd]

<<That's highly debatable, based on the comments
you've
made in this thread. I do understand that you might
feel the need to disassociate yourself from earlier
remarks, however. You're looking about as open-minded
as Pynchon-L's newest pontificator.>>

It's not debatable; it's not there and I feel no need
to disassociate myself from anything I've said. 
Again, cite me.

<<The only problem with your approach is, that in the
process of proscribing certain ways of talking or
writing English generally, those modalities will no
longer be available for artistic exploitation.>>

This is certainly false and ignorant as well. Hurston,
Ellison, Pynchon, Joyce, Faulkner, whomever -- the
prose that appears in their work is artifice, the
singular creation of singular artists.  Do you think
Ralph Ellison or Richard Wright or James Baldwin or
Langston Hughes or Gwendolyn Brooks were not taught a
prescriptive grammar?

In any case it has nothing to do with whether Black
children are served by being schooled that mangled
grammar and aberrant spellings are okay for them, less
they feel disrespected.
 

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