• 7upCoconut@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    When someone says “I seen”.

    No, you saw. Or you have seen.

    It’s like nails on a chalkboard to me.

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      1 year ago

      what gets me is when people interpret the use of different english dialects as a negative reflection on their character. demanding strict adherance to prescriptivist standards of grammar seem to me to be a sign of poor education.

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      1 year ago

      Ya that’s not a sign uneducated imo. Infact, formal education has very little to do with how “educated” one is ime.

      I didn’t go to college. And most of my “peers” didn’t either. But I wouldn’t consider myself uneducated in the least.

      Many of my peers use this term, and while “uneducated”, many are far from dumb.

      I’d consider it more of a dialect atp.

      But I guess your right in that there is a higher chance they are kind of uneducated, but i think how you portray it comes off as pearl clutching, and sort of mean.