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Professor says standard English is racist

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Fast and Curious

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@shavixmir
Kiss my donut?

shavixmir
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@sonhouse said
@shavixmir
Kiss my donut?
Nearly.

AverageJoe1
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@shavixmir said
Language is always evolving.

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See. You can already write without words.
Surely you don’t want to talk about evolution on the forums , with all that is going on? Someone might possibly tie in pistols being owned by Neanderthal man.

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@jj-adams said
How evolved would you call this language?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMutB1LV5_o
https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/bws.aspx

HP Lovecraft, Beyond the Wall of Sleep

Joe Slater, who came to the institution in the vigilant custody of four state policemen, and who was described as a highly dangerous character, certainly presented no evidence of his perilous disposition when first I beheld him. Though well above the middle stature, and of somewhat brawny frame, he was given an absurd appearance of harmless stupidity by the pale, sleepy blueness of his small watery eyes, the scantiness of his neglected and never-shaven growth of yellow beard, and the listless drooping of his heavy nether lip. His age was unknown, since among his kind neither family records nor permanent family ties exist; but from the baldness of his head in front, and from the decayed condition of his teeth, the head surgeon wrote him down as a man of about forty.
From the medical and court documents we learned all that could be gathered of his case. This man, a vagabond, hunter, and trapper, had always been strange in the eyes of his primitive associates. He had habitually slept at night beyond the ordinary time, and upon waking would often talk of unknown things in a manner so bizarre as to inspire fear even in the hearts of an unimaginative populace. Not that his form of language was at all unusual, for he never spoke save in the debased patois of his environment; but the tone and tenor of his utterances were of such mysterious wildness, that none might listen without apprehension. He himself was generally as terrified and baffled as his auditors, and within an hour after awakening would forget all that he had said, or at least all that had caused him to say what he did; relapsing into a bovine, half-amiable normality like that of the other hill-dwellers.

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