ABSTRACT
I ask why is it that, say, “She say I is not good people” and “She telling I no good fello, no!” are murder to the “educated” except in the ghetto of “creative” contexts, whereas something like “in the conversations that have transpired during our acquaintance, she has intimated to me personally that she cannot bring herself to consider myself to be admirably suitable with respect to my individual character” is only deemed “wordy”, but clearly shows a “command” of the language? The hegemony of hep standard languages and cool registers which hide where they are coming from … is read for points by these non-standard varieties like and unlike the ones I be mixing and jamming here.
