Ooh, linguistic ignorance!

[conuly]

Fun!

I'm going to be sick. There's no more justification for being prejudicided against speakers of a non-Standard dialect than to be prejudiced against practicioners of a minority religion, but here it comes again! And yet, when I point out that it doesn't mean that this woman is retarded, I get yelled at, and words get put in my mouth. Because, of course, it's so much easier to contest what I didn't say than what I actually *did* say.

I need to hie me to Jenn's. I'll talk later. Djusk' a.

Comments

[conuly]

Is it wrong? This is what I was taught. Can you provide a reference?

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I'm not familiar with any online linguistic sources. I know that the double negative was an innovation in (probably) 17th Century English, among the working classes in London. It wasn't particularly prevalent though until the 19th century in the central London working class dialect (ie Cockney).

Of course as we all know, today's working class accent is tomorrow's SE, so there's every chance that with the advent of Estuary English, the double negative will slowly become more and more acceptable until it begins to be written into BBC newsreels.

That doesn't mean we have to sit back and just take it.

[conuly]

That doesn't mean we have to sit back and just take it.

Why? I like the double negative. It's all fluffy and cuddly, and it's orange. Which, as you can see, is one of my favorite colors.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

The implication I get here is that you have synaesthesia.

Is this "true" or are you joking?

A little off-topic perhaps, but...

[conuly]

Joking. I find it's a useful thing to do when people are taking things too seriously (I do that all the time, actually. I was just getting ready to switch to talking about something else when you guys showed up. Nice, but a bit annoying. I hate being wrong gah!).

And you know what synaesthesia is! *hugs*