Saturday, January 19, 2008

Hmmm...

In my humble opinion I don't believe that a prescriptivist is always prejudice . I think it doesn't matter whether you are a prescriptivist or a descriptivist you can still be prejudice in regards to language. So what I'm trying to say is that no matter which category you fall may fall in, we all have preconceived feelings towards the other. Even descriptivist with their vernacular dialects have words and thoughts that try to demean the prescriptivist.

I describe my self as a mid-prescriptivist and also a little prejudice but not towards all people who use slangs because even I use Ebonics but to the extent of trying to change my self. I'm mainly prejudice against people who use a slang that doesn't belong to their culture in constant effect. Such as a white kid using Ebonics. So in a way we are all a little prejudice and at times I think it is understandable to be prejudice.

3 comments:

mad said...

ya in a way we are all prejudice aginst another group, and that is a clear fact we are humans thats what we do.

Robbi Poulson said...

I agree we all are discriminatory in one way or another. This was a very insightful post.

Anonymous said...

I agree with your when you say, "no matter which category you fall may fall in, we all have preconceived feelings towards the other."
I also liked when you talked about white kids sorta in a sense of trying to change their identity and overusing Ebonics. Because I, like you use it sometimes, but not to that extent.