Aaron Schlossberg and Linguistic Discrimination - IMPORTANT VIDEO 

Thanks! I'm thinking of doing more videos like this one!

E bem verdade. O problema è que todos temos uma idea de como se deveria falar e assim julgamos as pessoas que nao concordam com as nossas ideas!

I kinda figured you would find that one interesting based that video you made a while ago! :D

Ahah well. Obviously I didn't expand a lot on that but it's actually a topic that I'd like to cover on a future video! Even if this touches more on sociolinguistics (which is not my specialty), I'll make some points to kinda make sense of what I tried to say! Basically, in the US and France at least, we are all taught one way of speaking which is the standard language (Standard American English in your case). It's probably for commodity as it's easier to agree on one "English" as opposed to having to teach many Englishes - there would be no time as well considering all the other subjects you have to study! But if you think of it, why is Standard American English (SAE) the good English? Why is it not African American Vernacular English? Or even Southern English? Well, roughly speaking, there's no good reason (maybe racism in the case of AAVE...). Someone at some point decided that this type of English will be the English that anyone should speak. That's what we call standardisation. But from a linguistic point of view, it wasn't a better way of speaking but rather a way that was preferred. And at school we are taught that this is the good way to speak and that the others aren't good. It's really ingrained in our minds. And the issue with standardisation is that everyone has to speak that variety of English if they want to be accepted in society. Anyone that doesn't will be rejected more or less. At school for example, you are taught that "ain't" is not a word. But if you insist on using it, you might be made fun of I guess. Or the teacher will tell you off. So you'll associate it with something negative. That's how it gets ingrained. You associate ways of speaking as good or bad. But from a linguistic point of view, these judgments have no value because language rules are extremely arbitrary. Before there were grammar books, people spoke in lots of different ways but one day a guy did a "best of" English and made a book out of it ahah. And after that, they forced people to speak that way and overtime it became the good way to speak. Also, most people don't speak standard American English, or Standard French all of the time. If you use "ain't", you aren't speaking it. If you use "less" instead of "fewer", you aren't speaking it, etc. So basically it is not a reflection of how people actually speak so it's problematic I guess. In England, people estimate that only 8% of the people actually have a RP accent (Queen's English accent if you will). So why do we stick to standard language if most people don't really use it? Well, I guess it's because that's always how it's been and it is also convenient in many aspects of society. It allows us to have a common dialect (because yes, American English and Standard French are dialects but it sounds better to say 'language') in order to communicate in a mutually understandable way. At least that's my opinion! If you have more questions I'll answer in a voice note :D

Kevin Abroad Holy novel, Batman!!!! But thank you for taking the time to do so! Yeah, I guess I understand what you’re saying... it’s hard coming from a place where I feel there is a right way and a wrong way. But also, there’s totally the “book” English and then street “English,” or how the locals do it. And I feel like language is ever evolving... like now, I would actually say that in the US, it’s more trendy to use more of an African American English in social media, YT or other trendy venues/marketing.... I suppose as each older generation falls off the map, the newer generations will adjust language as they see fit 🤷‍♀️

Random E Yes exactly! Language evolves!

Aahahaha I guess I didn't want to be too harsh but your point is more than fair :p