[James Boston]

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I'm saying, tell the kids "a lot of you speak this way, and that's fine. It's just a dialect like Australian English or Scots-English, and sounding like this doesn't make you stupid or anything else, but if you want to get a job or get into college, Broadcast Standard is the language you're going to have to learn to speak and write."

That's it. I call it realistic relativism.


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I agree with that. Speaking in slang terms or colloquial terms doesn't make someone stupid. I live in the south and know many intelligent people who abuse English. However, the article I linked worries me because it seems as if the administrators behind this idea are saying, "This is how many of you speak, and it's fine. It's a real language and you shouldn't worry about learning anything else," and that is not "realisitic relativism." Maybe I'm reading between the lines too much, but as another poster stated, this is a slippery slope.