By Whom, Dialects

I'm a native English (American) speaker, and I have heard that English is easy to learn at a basic level. However, becoming fluent or speaking like a native speaker is difficult because, frankly, the language makes little sense even to those of us for whom it's a first language. Luckily...

MrPedantic wrote: version non-standard (why? what does this mean?); we use the ‘!’ symbol to mark a construction or form as ungrammatical in Standard English (?) but grammatical in a non-standard dialect (so everything that is non-standard is dialect?).Hi MrP, that one?I already commented in the...

MrPedantic wrote: Or "Kim and me saw the accident", if you prefer: http://www.cambridge.org/assets/linguistics/cgel/chap1.pdf version non-standard; we use the ‘!’ symbol to mark a construction or form as ungrammatical in Standard English but grammatical in a non-standard dialect. MrP ...

Or "Kim and me saw the accident", if you prefer: http://www.cambridge.org/assets/linguistics/cgel/chap1.pdf version non-standard; we use the ‘!’ symbol to mark a construction or form as ungrammatical in Standard English but grammatical in a non-standard dialect. MrP

Hello Milky, Milky wrote: That kind of covers up the correct-incorrect English, good language-poor language view that normally accompanies prescriptivist texts. I quoted this passage earlier: version non-standard; we use the ‘!’ symbol to mark a construction or form as ungrammatical in...

Hello Milky, Milky wrote: Jim. please tell us what is bunk about the explanation given under the heading "Description versus prescription" here: http://www.cambridge.org/assets/linguistics/cgel/chap1.pdf Out of interest, what do you make of this passage from further on in Chapter 1: ...

Hello Diamond, "Whom" is always correct; "who" would be considered "incorrect" by some, but would probably be used by most BrE speakers. (I'm not sure which would be more common in other dialects.) Cf. "I suspect him of supporting the other side"; thus "He is the person whom I suspect of...

Some people will even get a sort of neutral accent that has all of the unusual parts removed. The Western US accent was actually formed like that, because speakers from the North, Midlands, and South, all moved to the West, and their accents intermingled and the Western accent was sort of a...

Mjcbrown wrote:Unlike as in Germany, regional accents have been retained by the working classes and now are still distinctive of the working class and as such bear a "working class" stigma.Presumably this means "retained only by the working classes", otherwise it could be interpreted as...

The Antonym of Sin In order to arrive at a suitable antonym for the word “sin”, one must understand the word as it is correctly used in the English language. This explanation will address the meaning of sin and its antonym in an attempt to assist in gaining a more thorough understanding. As a...