what is proper english anyway? – Amy Laurens | Award-winning Fantasy Author

There’s No Such Thing As ‘Real’ English (Repost)

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Reposting this because: topical. My friend’s daughter was told in class last week that she would never be successful because she didn’t speak ‘proper’ English. I got a story rejection recently with personal feedback (which is so nice to have!) that mentioned that the story was a strange combination of British and American English. Spoiler: […]

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What It REALLY Means To Be Trilingual

IDK, I think this is just going to be slam poetry month, ‘kay? ‘Kay. Anyway, this one’s lovely, and touches on a topic that fascinates me both as an English teacher and as a trained linguist. We tend to have this view that anyone who can’t speak ‘proper’ English is lower, defective in some way.