Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!MC.LCS.MIT.EDU!kfl%mx.lcs.mit.edu From: kfl%mx.lcs.mit.edu@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: mod.politics Subject: Good English Message-ID: <12229620046.51.MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Sun, 10-Aug-86 03:09:20 EDT Article-I.D.: RED.12229620046.51.MCGREW Posted: Sun Aug 10 03:09:20 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Aug-86 06:07:20 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: kfl%mx.lcs.mit.edu@mc.lcs.mit.edu Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 24 Approved: poli-sci@red.rutgers.edu From: ~joe testa~ Who says that the English spoken by "inner city types" is worse than that spoken by anyone else?!?! The great majority of potential employers, that's who. Also, the great majority of teachers, professors, professional people, etc. If these people are to participate in a major way in the economic and political life of our country, they had better learn to talk straight. Different, yes. Are you sure it isn't objectively worse? Can it convey the same thoughts? Can classes in physics, mathematics, history, and business be conducted in it? Can the professions of banking, programming, law, and medicine be conducted in it? Is it a legitimate language like Spanish or Japanese? Or is it a collection of slang and gutter talk, only able to coherently convey thoughts of sex, gambling, violence, crime, and drugs? ...Keith -------