Quote from: jer on March 11, 2015, 04:26:58 PM
i brought it up to point out that not every twist of language should be taken seriously. while i get that writing off any dialect that isn't "proper" enough for you is problematic, that doesn't mean that any use of language should be revered as some sort of serious dialect.
"this needs folded" is not part of some southern or african-american dialect pattern.
my point, whether if it is or isn't, is that it could be because language is a flexible ever growing and ever changing organism, and how do we know that no one speaks that way somewhere in the country where it has become the norm? we don't and therefore making assumptions like you did, going back to my first post, is prescriptivist thinking and in the linguist world is often associated with conservativism and bigotry and other similar lines of thought. thats all i was saying. you can't say any language is idiotic because it simply isn't if its understood. now gobbledegook is idiotic. the gabberwocky is idiotic language, James Joyce's made up words were a fictional dialect. think about that comparison and i think youll see my point of view, even if you don't agree