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It’s all made up.

If you look down your nose at someone who says “aks” instead of “ask” consider that people who supposedly speak “proper” English say “comfterble” instead of “comfortable” and nobody bats an eye. Then ask yourself why that is.

Spoiler: there is no such thing as “proper” English, and all language is a cultural construct.

One of the biggest paradigm shifts of my life was when I realized that there is no dialect or manner of speech that is more or less correct than any other. Because there is no such thing as correct in terms of language, there is only the set of cultural norms as to how that language is used. You can judge if how a person speaks or writes conforms to the norms of the dialect, but you can’t judge if the dialect itself is correct or not.

We only consider some dialects or speech patterns correct or incorrect based on the populations that we associate with them. British RP is not more correct than AAVE but people think it is because it’s being spoken by upper class white people.

It kills me when language is treated as if there was some edict as to Proper Usage handed down on stone tablets from Mt. Zion or something. Nobody makes rules (well, except the Academie Francaise, but that’s another topic). Rules evolve through usage. The dictionary is not defining words, it is describing how the speakers have come to use those words. It is not the arbiter of correctness, it is the observer of usage.

this rant has been brought to you by two fucking o’clock in the morning.

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“I will drink prescriptivist tears out of my grammar-themed mug!” — another great quote from my grammar professor.

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