Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I assumed it was related to lack of education.
Your assumption is a racist one.
True.
Consider the fact most of America’s childhood grammar lessons were actually classes on white supremacy.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/opinion-proper-english-grammar-racism_n_5ba91ec9e4b069d5f9d549cd
Seriously? I've worked with many Black educators all my life. They emphasized the importance of childhood grammar lessons and used correct grammar.
Yes, seriously.
I know it can be difficult to accept your innate white racism.
But it is high time you both accept it and confront it. Grammar is a place to begin.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I assumed it was related to lack of education.
Your assumption is a racist one.
True.
Consider the fact most of America’s childhood grammar lessons were actually classes on white supremacy.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/opinion-proper-english-grammar-racism_n_5ba91ec9e4b069d5f9d549cd
Seriously? I've worked with many Black educators all my life. They emphasized the importance of childhood grammar lessons and used correct grammar.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This doesn’t bother me nearly as much as “should of ” for “should have.”
- yet another example of racism masquerading as “proper grammar.”
Anonymous wrote:This doesn’t bother me nearly as much as “should of ” for “should have.”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Regional, but also English grammar is weird.
How is it weird? You were either taught proper English, or not. This should have been taught starting in the 1st grade. Even if you hear it at home or "in the streets" what you're learning in school trumps all of that.
Hahahaha no. "proper English," ha. Just because some dudes started taking advantage of the social-climbing new middle class after the industrial revolution doesn't mean there is a proper or improper English. Yes, the gatekeeping academia of times past has essentially controlled the rules for writing and we basically have to follow them if we want to get respect (this is called respectability politics, by the way), but that is an inherently subjective standard.
Also, yes English is absolutely weird. English is a bizarre amalgamation of various languages and doesn't have the much simpler origins of languages like Spanish.
Do you feel that spelling should also be a creative enterprise with no fixed rules? What about math?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Regional, but also English grammar is weird.
How is it weird? You were either taught proper English, or not. This should have been taught starting in the 1st grade. Even if you hear it at home or "in the streets" what you're learning in school trumps all of that.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I assumed it was related to lack of education.
Isn't that the issue = Which phrase is used by the well educated ?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I assumed it was related to lack of education.
Your assumption is a racist one.
True.
Consider the fact most of America’s childhood grammar lessons were actually classes on white supremacy.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/opinion-proper-english-grammar-racism_n_5ba91ec9e4b069d5f9d549cd
Seriously? I've worked with many Black educators all my life. They emphasized the importance of childhood grammar lessons and used correct grammar.
NP. Of course they do. They live in a world where they will be judged more harshly if they don’t use prescriptive grammar. But they probably code switch.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This doesn’t bother me nearly as much as “should of ” for “should have.”
I'm from NJ. I definitely say "should've" when I'm speaking informally and it probably sounds like "should of" ? My English isn't that poor (740 SAT), obviously I would never write out "should of"
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I assumed it was related to lack of education.
Your assumption is a racist one.
True.
Consider the fact most of America’s childhood grammar lessons were actually classes on white supremacy.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/opinion-proper-english-grammar-racism_n_5ba91ec9e4b069d5f9d549cd
Seriously? I've worked with many Black educators all my life. They emphasized the importance of childhood grammar lessons and used correct grammar.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is this a regional thing? I see it happen a lot
Illiterate.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I assumed it was related to lack of education.
Your assumption is a racist one.
True.
Consider the fact most of America’s childhood grammar lessons were actually classes on white supremacy.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/opinion-proper-english-grammar-racism_n_5ba91ec9e4b069d5f9d549cd
Anonymous wrote:Is this a regional thing? I see it happen a lot