Every so often some so-called educator, or a politician who thinks they know something about education, has a psychological meltdown about people using non-standard English. Whether it’s youngsters using slang, or (shudder) text-speak in their writing or a different branch of the language altogether, they rail against the corruption of our glorious lang…
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