I breathed a sigh of relief last weekend when linguist John McWhorter explained that Jeantels English is perfect. Its just that its Black English. What McWhorter calls Black English is a dialect spoken by millions of Americans, and decades of linguistics research, much of it compiled by McWhorter himself, attests that it is a robust dialect like any other, with an internally consistent grammar and vocabulary.
And here it comes....again you just can't make this shit up....
African Americans are victim not just to gross racial profiling, as was Trayvon Martin, but also to linguistic discrimination, a little-understood prejudice that springs directly from linguistic prescription.
Rachel Jeantel's Language is English ? It's Just Not Your English
And there you go, we have all subjected her to "linguistic discrimination".
Lefty's are absolutely wierd people....
The American language is to English is what Yiddish is to German and Puerto Rican is to Spanish, so it would be supercilious to think of ordinary spoken and written American as a model of linguistic purity. But nonetheless it is the accepted language of the land and the use of any adaptation or arbitrary
reconfiguration of its accepted form or vocabulary is unacceptable for use under formal, official, or academic circumstances.
McWhorter's flattering reference to what is best described as a degenerative adapation of the common language amounts to an extremely patronizing attempt to mitigate what is in fact a pronounced deficiency in practical communication. The evolution of what is in fact an esoteric dialect is plainly counterproductive to the social advancement of Black Americans.
In simple terms it operates to effectively set them apart from the mainstream.
