Comment on Are separable verbs a thing in ENG?
CombatWombat@feddit.online 1 week agoI think what you’re telling me is you’re a native German speaker, and if so I might say you’re on rather tenuous ground telling a native english speaker what sounds weird and dumb in their native language.
AskewLord@piefed.social 1 week ago
No, I’m American. Every language has a standard version, that the educated people speak, and a non-standard versions that mark you as uneducated and foolish that are not socially acceptable in professional work.
And part of becoming educated is learning to stamp out your ways of talking/writing you were brought up with and learn to conform to the standardized version of you language and the correct pronunciation of words and use of grammar. Separable verbs are not allowed in proper English, and even saying things like ‘call up’ are hokey and provincial sounding compared to simply saying ‘call’ or ‘phone’.
CombatWombat@feddit.online 1 week ago
I find this view surprising from an American. I find the use of the education system to enforce a “standard” dialect of English rather than studying and celebrating regional dialect at odds with both the project of America and our national character.
AskewLord@piefed.social 1 week ago
I come from Boston.my regional dialect is the mockery of the nation. my mom has a boston accent, all people is think she’s a stupid idiot for the way she speaks, and mock her behind her back for it. People tell me how educated and smart I am because I don’t have it.
You don’t seem to live in the real world. Nobody celebrates regional dialects so much as they run from them because they understand how they will economically ruin you if you don’t unlearn them. They make for nice characters on TV, but in the real world you won’t get hired if you talk weird.
CombatWombat@feddit.online 1 week ago
If you’re sensitive about how people judge you based on your accent and regional dialect, I feel that advocating that we treat people who speak nonstandard forms of english or in regional dialects, even on fedi, is a more productive way to get the treatment from others you want.
forestbeasts@pawb.social 1 week ago
Wow, this is ridiculously prescriptivist.
Also, huh? put on, take off, take out, pull over, there’s plenty of separable verbs that are perfectly normal in formal use.
Also also, as one of those “educated” people, dialect differences are cool actually and “stamping them out” should not be a goal.
– Frost
AskewLord@piefed.social 6 days ago
dude, next time you go to a wedding, please don’t shower for three days and wear your most worn and tattered clothing.
then when everyone is disgusted and asks you to leave, be sure to lecture them on how they are prescriptivist about fashion an body hygene and how you should be allowed to dress/wash yourself however YOU want.
yeah, i get it, you’re the typical liberal who ‘celebrates’ things, but if someone wrote you an email with imperfect grammar you’d get bent out of shape and have zero respect for them.