07: Kids these days aren’t ruining language
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The Type of English That's Been Considered the Best
What we think of as formal and correct is also based a lot on the existing power dynamics that happen in our society. The type of english that's been considered the best is the kind that's, i no model by latin, that's spoken by class british dudes from like, the 18 hundredsy. It has no more particular merits than any other one. We're talking mostly about age based differences, even though they're somewhat arbitrary here. But of course, there are other socio linguistic factors that this interacts with. And this gender, and there's a level of education,. There's race, and there’s different dynamics happening in the u k and the us.
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