Our language prejudices don’t make no sense. Zanuttini, R. Pacific Standard, October, 2014.
Our language prejudices don’t make no sense [link]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
We should embrace the fact that there’s no single recipe for English. Making fun of people for replacing “ask” with “aks,” or for frequently using double negatives just makes you look like the unsophisticated one.
@article{zanuttini_our_2014,
	title = {Our language prejudices don’t make no sense},
	url = {http://www.psmag.com/books-and-culture/language-prejudices-dont-make-sense-negative-aks-ask-racist-92881},
	abstract = {We should embrace the fact that there’s no single recipe for English. Making fun of people for replacing “ask” with “aks,” or for frequently using double negatives just makes you look like the unsophisticated one.},
	urldate = {2015-04-15},
	journal = {Pacific Standard},
	author = {Zanuttini, Raffaella},
	month = oct,
	year = {2014},
	keywords = {Negative concord},
}

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