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id highly suggest reading books like this: jstor.org/stable/1925258… to get a good understanding of the thought of colonial era
it's a pervasive ideology about language that primarily stems from colonial Europe. It so happens to be wrong and
the "an" example he's using is a common example used by prescriptive grammarians. Not that are this institutionalized, no.
an example of why this is important: news.stanford.edu/news/2014/dece…
underlying grammar is. The type he is referring to, prescriptive grammar, is not. I'm sorry. It's hard to type on this site.
instead of ask (even though the "ax" pronunciation is ironically an older variant). This sort of thinking exists in other la
this sort of view cause generational dissonance. Kids are taught to believe that their parents are stupic for saying "ax"
when in reality, they are just as grammatical as any dialect. This thinking real matedial harm to poc and to the lower class
this thinking is colonial because it claims that there's one superior dialect of English and that other dialects are inferio
prescriptive grammarians will use rules like "don't split infinitives", but this has no bearing on the grammar (see ex.1)
whereas "sleep sheep really not in the." Is ungrammatical because the structure itself is not understandable.
"sheep need to really eat their food." Is considered grammatical by linguists because it is able to be understood by speakers
rather, a sentence is ungrammatical if every speaker of a language would view it as not making sense. For example,
exist. For linguists, a sentence is grammatical within a language if it can be reasonabut understood by a speaker of the lang
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