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I try and use language, written or spoken, so that as many people as possible in the context will be able to understand me. I want language to open people up to eachother. When typing on Barbelith, that means "Standard English" with all the rules applied.
On the other hand, I think that what is called "Standard English" is called so entirely arbitrarily. It is only easy to understand if it what you personally understand it, it isn't an objectively "better" language because there's no such thing.
So it's a double edged sword: I'm not into enforced standardisation, because it's technically if not ethically wrong (see above); I'm not happy about the imbalances and the power structures that are set up by the BBC accent when heard in, say, Blackpool or Cornwall, because you get these master-puppy/newsreader-audience thing going on and it actually makes a good source less credible.
On the other hand I'm not into people who try to use their language to limit acess to information, and this occurs in dialects as much as it occurs in lawyer talk. |
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