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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
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Wow. Cool post, thanks.
I had always thought the whole "it's not a dialect, that is disrespectful" thing was weird, but I take the linguists view so I understand why I was confused. I am quite curious as to what they mean by "primary language" or "home language" - if they mean "same language but the dialect (grammar and vocabulary: "you be fly") and/or accent (pronunciation: "axe a question") is so different from mainstream that understanding becomes difficult (e.g.: Indian sub-continent English), or if they mean "different language," comparable to Spanish. I know the debate was cast in the press as "they want to say it is a different language and get ESL funds," but I had the impression that was incorrect.
