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sushinfood:

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angrypolak:

The concept of “Proper English” is prescriptivist, racist, ethnocentric, classist and ableist as shit

People can speak one language in many ways an it’s still the same language.  That doesn’t change that there is an established set of rules to ANY language otherwise there would be no way to teach it and the field of linguistics would not exist.  Granted in every language there are dialects and accents.  Dialects in this context being different ways the language is spoken by native speakers and accents being the different ways it is spoken by non native speakers.  This does not negate the fact that there is still a “proper” form(s) of any language.

If a native French speaker corrects my french, that is considered helpful. When I am learning Japanese, I have to learn the rules of the language.  Why is English suddenly not allowed to have rules?  Like any other language it has a unique history and linguistic parameters.  There is a proper way to speak English just as there is a proper way to speak any language.  

The fact that is often ignored is that even native speakers don’t speak in the proper form of any language.  In fact, native speakers are the least likely of any group of speakers to even try to speak properly.  

At the end of the day language is about communicating your point clearly so if you can do that then consider yourself successful no matter how “proper” you speak.  Proper english really isn’t that important in everyday life but it does exist.  

Claiming there is a “proper english” is NOT any of the things you listed.

Demanding people speak it IS.

There is a difference.   

It’s tumblr.They’re going to find ways to get upset about everything they’ve been corrected on by a teacher in some way shape or form.