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[quote=Anonymous]Another English major who writes for a living and I also don’t really care. I remember how snobby my mother was about my friends’ grammar, and how she was always afraid I’d turn out like them - it was pure, unadulterated class and status anxiety. We projected our class and education by the content, accent, and syntax of our speech and writing. It now seems so…fearful and small. My teenager’s grammar is not what mine is. He uses “ain’t”, which I was never allowed to do, and when he is with his friends he will definitely say things like “where you at”, as the PP above mentions. His written grammar, and spoken grammar in class and with grandma, is much more standard. Language does evolve. We evolve, too, and hopefully stop fearing the end of culture, humanity, and civilization because people do things differently than we do.[/quote]
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