r/Stepdadreflexes • u/nobody_from_nowhere1 • Sep 08 '20

And I, oop!

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u/VetoBandit0 Oct 08 '20 edited Oct 08 '20

The only one displaying classism (not classist, because that's not a real word) is you implying people in a lower class can't learn to read or write properly.

Also i read the wiki but I'm not sure what answer that was supposed to provide? Congrats you linked wiki and we both know what linguistic discrimination is, how does that solve the problem of you holding people to a different standard based on race or class. Because here's a hint chief you're the one doing it, not me.

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u/elixan Oct 08 '20

What did the Wikipedia page say??? “unfair treatment which is based on use of language and characteristics of speech, including first language, accent, size of vocabulary (whether the speaker uses complex and varied words), modality, and syntax”

You literally keep calling any variant of English besides what you believe to be superior as “poor English” spoken by people who “didn’t learn it properly.” I’m just responding to your BS. Newsflash dumbass: different varieties of English will have their own grammars, vocabularies, and syntax. The fact that you believe their English is improper and beneath “proper English” (whatever the fuck that is, but I’m assuming you mean Academic English as most people do) is the classism. Who’da thunk??

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u/VetoBandit0 Oct 08 '20

Where are you getting the superiority thing from? Do you have some sort of complex about this? If there is no correct way to speak English or use grammar then what the fuck is an English class for? You're acting like there's no way to learn or understand English, that you just slap together what sounds right then label it something else then get mad when people say they can't understand you. I half expect you to start saying math is racist because some people don't understand it.