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Based on this article, this guy would never hire ebonics speakers. He openly admits that he selects against them. Almost anyone with rudimentary knowledge of l
by gragas 10y ago
Based on this article, this guy would never hire ebonics speakers. He openly admits that he selects against them.
Almost anyone with rudimentary knowledge of linguistics would realize that selecting people based on grammar is not a good idea. This video really changed my view on people with bad grammar: https://youtu.be/pkzVOXKXfQk https://youtu.be/pkzVOXKXfQk
This man is publicly shaming himself in my opinion.
- zemblan 10y agoNo, he won't hire people who only speak Ebonics, just as he won't hire people who only speak any other regional or ethnic variant of English. He will hire people who can write in correct standard English, which should be anyone who has an education, regardless of the variant they speak in their community or family.
- erikpukinskis 10y agoCorrect and standard are not the same thing. It's one thing to say African American Vernacular English (AAVE) isn't standard, and that Standard American English (SAE), what with the Standard in the name, is. It's a totally different thing to say AAVE is "incorrect". Regardless, the idea that everyone in your company needs to speak SAE because it's an important part of the business is a little like Facebook saying everyone in your company needs to program in PHP because it's an important part of their business. There is such a thing as specialization. Not everyone at the company has to be able to do every job.
- spacemanmatt 10y agoI thought that would be the likely case, but I read into it and somewhat agree with the author. He focuses on written grammar, not on speech.