Linguists don't distinguish between "proper" and "improper" English, or "right" or "wrong", although they are very interested what native speakers think of "gra

Linguists don't distinguish between "proper" and "improper" English, or "right" or "wrong", although they are very interested what native speakers think of "grammatical" or "ungrammatical" sentences. In (modern) linguistics, you try to be descriptive rather than prescriptive, watching language artifacts through the looking glass. English exists in many so-called varieties, geographical varieties, different varieties used in different social strata of one and the same society.