#also bc my mum is a prescriptivist with a capital letter and thinks dialects aren’t ‘good dutch’
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getting sad thinking about the dialects I would have known/spoken had it not been for the devaluation of “non-standard” variations of a language
#another reason why prescriptivism is the devil#it’s just. both my grandparents on my dad’s side speak/spoke dialects but they didn’t really pass them on to my dad bc it would have#hindered him in school. but bc he knows so little of them he doesn’t really feel connected to them either and didn’t pass the bits he does#know on to me either#also bc my mum is a prescriptivist with a capital letter and thinks dialects aren’t ‘good dutch’#which. girl. you literally didn’t learn your ancestors’ (for lack of better word) dialect either#oh also. I didn’t learn the dialect of the city I was born in either bc we moved away before I could#elli rambles#it just. makes me sad#all this linguistic diversity harmed by standardisation and the idea that the only purpose of a language is to communicate with as many#people as possible. while it’s such an important part of culture too#etc etc sorry I’m rambling#languageposting#why is this getting notes
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