A living language such as English is a dynamic flow of spoken and written terms, eternally evolving. Each time a new person is born into a language, each time a person who speaks that language dies, the language becomes something different. Whenever people use the language they cause it to flow in and around itself, creating new meanings, new ways to express, new ways to think about that very language.
Non Standard English reflects that process of language becoming. This "English" is really a collection of "English's" comprised of dialects, slang, technical jargon and slogans we learn from TV, movies and politicians. There are rules of grammar found in each of them, some of those rules are common to all, many of them are different. Whether you are a hip teenager growing up in Harlem or a cultured patriarch of the Deep South or a Louisiana native singing some Zydeco blues, there are rules, certain grammatical structures unique to each way of speaking English. These rules are there, but they are not the rules spoken of in grammar books or in handbooks or in manuals of style.
Grammar books commonly describe one of the many dialects spoken in America, "Standard English." When people use terms such as "good" grammar; or when they describe a different dialect as "bad" English, they usually mean good or bad (correct or incorrect) in "Standard English". In any of the forms of English "good" or "bad," however, is more a quality of whether or not your words convey the meaning you intend, rather than any particular combination of the language. There is nothing "naughty" about the word "ain't." But, as there are times when "ain't" carries meaning better than any other word, there are also times when "ain't" will get in the way of good communication.
A living language such as English is a dynamic flow of spoken and written terms, eternally evolving. Each time a new person is born into a language, each time a person who speaks that language dies, the language becomes something different. Whenever people use the language they cause it to flow in and around itself, creating new meanings, new ways to express, new ways to think about that very language.
Non Standard English reflects that process of language becoming. This "English" is really a collection of "English's" comprised of dialects, slang, technical jargon and slogans we learn from TV, movies and politicians. There are rules of grammar found in each of them, some of those rules are common to all, many of them are different. Whether you are a hip teenager growing up in Harlem or a cultured patriarch of the Deep South or a Louisiana native singing some Zydeco blues, there are rules, certain grammatical structures unique to each way of speaking English. These rules are there, but they are not the rules spoken of in grammar books or in handbooks or in manuals of style.
Grammar books commonly describe one of the many dialects spoken in America, "Standard English." When people use terms such as "good" grammar; or when they describe a different dialect as "bad" English, they usually mean good or bad (correct or incorrect) in "Standard English". In any of the forms of English "good" or "bad," however, is more a quality of whether or not your words convey the meaning you intend, rather than any particular combination of the language. There is nothing "naughty" about the word "ain't." But, as there are times when "ain't" carries meaning better than any other word, there are also times when "ain't" will get in the way of good communication.
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