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[โ€“] 7upCoconut 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When someone says "I seen".

No, you saw. Or you have seen.

It's like nails on a chalkboard to me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

what gets me is when people interpret the use of different english dialects as a negative reflection on their character. demanding strict adherance to prescriptivist standards of grammar seem to me to be a sign of poor education.

[โ€“] MiddleWeigh 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ya that's not a sign uneducated imo. Infact, formal education has very little to do with how "educated" one is ime.

I didn't go to college. And most of my "peers" didn't either. But I wouldn't consider myself uneducated in the least.

Many of my peers use this term, and while "uneducated", many are far from dumb.

I'd consider it more of a dialect atp.

But I guess your right in that there is a higher chance they are kind of uneducated, but i think how you portray it comes off as pearl clutching, and sort of mean.