[ SECRET POST #5099 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5099 ⌋

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Comments

Re: What do you do in real life?

[(Anonymous)]

Your point is taken - it has been observed that some educated people use the pronunciation the OP finds objectionable. The same exact source, however, says that is less frequent or common for that to be the case, which would explain why the OP is annoyed by situations where they hear it - entirely because of its association with education. My point (having nothing to do with "often", although I do admit I hate being ~corrected when I say it perfectly correctly) is that you are using a source to make one argument while ignoring the other points in the same exact source that don't support your claims and instead support the OP's.

Re: What do you do in real life?

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Okay, I am not arguing that fewer people use the pronunciation and I am not arguing that it is a standard way. I am saying that the secret maker implies that an educated person would never say it like that, that it is always wrong for the character if they are well-educated and well-spoken, and that just isn't true. I'm saying that some, not all, well-educated people will have that particular speech habit.

Re: What do you do in real life?

[(Anonymous)]

Fair enough, I will agree with that. For what it's worth, I think that the OP is right in saying that there certain pronunciations are associated with education levels, but I don't think that that is right, or that policing of language in academia or whatever is right, either. Ought =/= is.

Re: What do you do in real life?

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

I appreciate that. Sorry that I was short with you earlier. I guess I'm a little more sensitive to this than I realized. My mom, who has a Master's degree, is from the South and very consciously suppressed her accent in college because of the perceptions surrounding it. But even though she doesn't usually speak with a Southern accent now unless she's been talking to family from there or is telling stories about growing up, it still influences her speech in other ways.