alt Hacker NewsGrammar at its best promotes clear communication but more often is used as a social tool of control and exclusion. When you are already talking to people within your in-group, that impulse isn’t necessary.
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PaulHoule • today at 4:30 PM
On some level. Thing is it is visible and everybody knows what the standards are, social mobility is possible under the sign of grammar.
If the game is wearing a $20k watch or understanding the covert signs of status that you might find in a particular community, that's something different.
Everyone uses grammar. What you're describing is elitism and elevating one particular dialect above all others.