wolf of the wispJan 17, 2025
when to talk posh #RegionalAccents #ColloquialEnglish #linguistics #JohnBull https://phys.org/news/2025-01-brits-associate-class-accents-criminal.html
Brits still associate working-class accents with criminal behavior: Study warns of bias in the criminal justice system

Research led by the University of Cambridge, in collaboration with Nottingham Trent University, raises serious concerns about bias in the UK criminal justice system due to negative stereotyping of accents.

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Sp4rkler 3ricksonOct 25, 2024

Terminology I feel has become meaningless in colloquial use.

Idiot (or similar terminology) - Means unintelligent person, but colloquial users of the term disagree on what constitutes intelligence.

Literally - The dictionary contains both the correct definitions (1 and 2) and the colloquial definitions (3), undermining those who use it properly and rendering debate with colloquialists impossible.

#colloquialenglish #dictionaries #meaninglessterms

wolf of the wispOct 23, 2024
english verb conjugation :
i was
you was
he, she, it was
we was
they was
#EnglishLanguage #VerbConjugation #ColloquialEnglish