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I don't doubt your intentions and it was nice of you to preface your correction with such reservation, but I gotta give a shout-out to descriptivism: if you can

• LyndsySimon 10y ago
  That's a good point, and I don't disagree. For some background, I grew up in northern Arkansas. I have a very pronounced Southern accent if I allow myself to, and I've always made it a point to carefully enunciate and use "correct" (read: "Standard American English") grammar because my native accent is one that's generally associated with lower education or even lower intelligence. I credit my vocabulary with my reading everything I could early in life. I'm in my early thirties and there are still times when I have to ask others how to pronounce a word because I've never heard it spoken. I would much rather take the embarrassment of asking over the implicit judgement that people make if I badly mispronounce a word.
  • geoka9 10y ago
    I find this site very helpful for many languages, including English: https://forvo.com/languages/en/ https://forvo.com/languages/en/
• inimino 10y ago
  ...and that's not even what descriptivism means.
• coldtea 10y ago
  >but I gotta give a shout-out to descriptivism: if you can understand what's meant, maybe it's not incorrect! I can understand what is meant from 8-bit recordings of a voice. But I'd rather have 16 or 24-bit recordings and even more nuance and information.