StCapps wrote:Speaker to Animals wrote:
roll your eyes all you want, you know I'm right.
I think only one of us has seriously studied linguistics, and it's not you. Even though I was limited to computational linguistics, I do know enough not to confuse the valueless judgments made by descriptive linguistics with the higher-order analysis of social decay and dysfunction.
To descriptive linguistics, pigeon English dialects are legitimate fields of study because that's how people in those communities communicate with one another. It does
not follow from that, however, that some form of pigeon English is something that should be placed on equal par with the current form of English used by a nation's media and government.
I don't see BBC publishing articles in Manchester slang, for example. Everybody inherently understands what I am talking about, but they are so consumed with virtue signaling their deracination that they are quick to overlook the fact to defend this being applied to foreign immigrants. It's actually a subtle form of racism. You are essentially saying that white Manchester blokes are perfectly capable of learning to speak and understand proper English, so they don't need a special retarded version of BBC to learn about the world, but those poor Africans are just too stupid to learn how to speak the language of their adoptive nation so you need to provide them with intellectual training wheels.