"Correct" is context-specific. You can - and should - use language differently when you're hanging out with working-class friends than when you're trying to adv

"Correct" is context-specific. You can - and should - use language differently when you're hanging out with working-class friends than when you're trying to advance your white-collar professional career. Like, rap albums have some incredibly clever use of a vernacular dialect of English. It's not "dumbed down" by any stretch of the imagination. It just doesn't conform to the expectations of certain groups of prestigious white-collar professionals and executives.