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Thread #158049   Message #3734535
Posted By: Jack Campin
31-Aug-15 - 06:57 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: dialect and discrimination in the US
Subject: RE: Folklore: dialect and discrimination in the US
I brought it up to pre-empt some of the more predictable kinds of idiot response.

Of course language is folklore. What this article is about is getting shut out of opportunities for speaking the language used by some of the most revered singers in the American folk tradition.