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Languages, Dialects, and the Myth of Edited American English

By Staci Perryman-Clark People like to make judgments about the way others speak and often assume that those who don’t speak correctly or conventionally are not as intelligent. Such judgments permeate the many spaces in which we inhabit, including social media. Just the other week, I observed a picture in my Facebook Newsfeed of a…