August 12th, 2011 at 4:27PM
Linguaphilia: Dialectal Privilege

darthveghder:

I’ve been thinking about “dialectal privilege” lately. It’s pretty common knowledge that there is prejudice against people based on the dialect of English (sticking to English here because I know it) they speak. It intersects heavily with all sorts of other prejudices, of course, like race,…

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