Speaking of fingers and the removal thereof

( Cut for the squeamish )

This is because bodies are both amazing and a little gross.

Anyway, that's a little more long-term, but it's something to consider if it comes up in your fiction at any time.

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Pet peeve:

Please, everybody, stop referring to less-prestigious speech varieties as "valid" or "legitimate" dialects. I get what you mean, but what you're saying is that there is some sort of objective classification system by which some speech is more valid/legitimate than others.

And the people you're talking to already believe that, which is 95% of the problem.

That phrasing is not helpful.