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According to Jennifer Jenkins, in her book World English, the lack of acceptance of non-standard native forms of English seems to have connections with race, in the US, and with class, in the UK.
Would you also say that it seems that way?
Well, first off, what are these "non-standard" forms of English of which you speak? There are certainly unprestigious and stigmatized dialects, but each of them have their own rules of grammar. >
Yes, I think most of us here know that, Marv. The term "non-standard" has taken on a negative prosody in some circles and tended to become synonymous with "sub-standard", but that is not the way I am using it here. In linguistics, it stands as a word that describes variants that are not seen as Standard by standardists.
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< It also has absolutely nothing to do with "race". > ???
<<certain cultural groups such as African-American Vernacular English, and Chicano-English.> >
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