The Nine Lives of "Linguistic Deficiency"

[Kephart, Ronald]

"In the United States, most black children are already likely to understand
most kinds of English that they hear from whites. Presumably white people
have the intelligence to learn to understand the blacks. The Center for
Applied Linguistics may even be capable of learning that white ignorance is
a bigger obstacle to social justice than Black English is."*

After many years, still one of my favorite quotes. Whack-a-mole!

Ron

*Jim Sledd, "Doublespeak: Dialectology in the service of Big Brother." In
Varieties of Present-Day English, edited by R. Bailey and J. Robinson.
Macmillan 1973. Pp. 360-383.



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