Does this statement bother anyone else? 99% of the time they’re referring to non-standard varieties and calling it incorrect grammar. Sure, you wouldn’t write “ain’t” in an essay, but there’s nothing incorrect about that word. If it’s used and understood by native speakers then by definition it’s linguistically valid. So is saying “The car needs washed”.
Maybe it’s not that big of a deal, but I don’t like the sentiment and a lot of it reeks of racism (AAVE being stigmatized). I also think it’s cringey when native speakers say that they don’t know how to speak their own language properly because they speak insert stigmatized dialect.
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