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You seem to have a big gripe about the English language. There is nothing prestige about it, some of the upper class may like to pretend there is but it's just
by kamjam 13y ago
You seem to have a big gripe about the English language. There is nothing prestige about it, some of the upper class may like to pretend there is but it's just a means of communication like every other language and I would make the same observations about those too.
- eru 13y agoThere are different version of English. Please refer this most interesting paper "Grammatically Deviant Prestige Constructions" (http://fine.me.uk/Emonds/ http://fine.me.uk/Emonds/).