Sibbo@sopuli.xyz to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoWhat screams "poorly educated"?message-squaremessage-square464fedilinkarrow-up1295
arrow-up1295message-squareWhat screams "poorly educated"?Sibbo@sopuli.xyz to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square464fedilink
minus-square7upCoconut@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 year agoWhen someone says “I seen”. No, you saw. Or you have seen. It’s like nails on a chalkboard to me.
minus-squareMiddleWeigh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoYa that’s not a sign uneducated imo. Infact, formal education has very little to do with how “educated” one is.
minus-squarejuliebean@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agowhat 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.
When someone says “I seen”.
No, you saw. Or you have seen.
It’s like nails on a chalkboard to me.
Ya that’s not a sign uneducated imo. Infact, formal education has very little to do with how “educated” one is.
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.