A Defense of "Bad" English: Interview with Valerie Fridland
Update: 2023-04-27
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Instead of criticizing deviations from Standard English as "wrong," what if we celebrated them as expressive lingusitic innovations? In this conversation with Valerie, we take a look at some of the quirky features of English that our language teachers taught us to avoid, and in true Words for Granted fashion, we attempt to understand how and why they emerged.
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Disappointing interview. The guest seemed insistent on criticizing straw men. She seemed to cast all rules as arbitrary rather than recognizing that we can, in fact, sharpen the tools of language. Languages have purposes and we can purposefully improve their utility. Ironically, her views seemed largely reliant on the entropy of language, as words unmoored from meaning bumped against each other.