Ariel Cajar
mostaleohtOne thing I notice about #russian #twitter, which is not even about #linguistics, but more the #sociology of linguistics, is that a lot of people are really judgmental about each other's language. Attacks on language, on it's supposed impurity, the use of #punctuation, #sociolects and regionalisms, are _exremely common_. It's as if there was a shared understanding that a person not abiding by the norms of some "official language" can't represent the "russiannness", whatever it supposed to be 1/2
I'm myself an #ESL speaker since 4-5 years old in #Panama, a country with no official standard form of English, where the only local variants of English are either #PanamanianCreoleEnglish and #GeneralAmericanEnglish, both which are essentially #sociolects in that they're confined to older African-Panamanians of #WestIndian descent and older former #Zonian and thus also risking extinction as living daily languages.
English is my main means of communication on the internet; not Spanish.