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Thread #120103   Message #2610404
Posted By: greg stephens
13-Apr-09 - 04:33 PM
Thread Name: BS: Race & Socially Responsive Posting
Subject: RE: BS: Race & Socially Responsive Posting
Azizi: I don't think you can really assess how you stand on the use of black dialects of English(historic or contemporary) without at least taking a glance at your attitudes to other dialects of English. I am not saying that treatments should necssarily be uniform across all ethnic groups, far from it; but you need to have some sort of attitude to the use of dialects, whether in a derisive or positive way,right across the spectrum. For a start, what you call "standard English" is by no means standard on both sides of the Atlantic.