@zaydupree: stop using "the literacy crisis" to justify classism #linguistics #accent #language

Isaac :

My interpretation of the literary crisis was that it’s about reading comprehension and not standardization of grammar but this makes a lot of sense. I just want people to understand what they read

Books :

People who actually care about the literacy crises shouldn’t be criticizing AAVE, words like “gonna” “finna” or whatever else are still perfectly fine because language is ever-changing and defined by the people using it. Accents, slang, and dialects are all incredibly important to the history of any language. They indicate social norms and expectations, histories, culture, and more. The focus should be on understanding tone, inferencing skills, and critical thinking—functional literacy skills.

sean warburton :

Hey zay I have a serious question, if language is whatever is understood by society, why isn’t gooder a word? Love your content btw

LovelySaltyJess🧡🤍🩷♾️🔻 :

As an educator I OFTEN SEE people misusing “literacy” in this way. It’s heartbreaking.

loid :

I never posted something on my story faster

Emmett :

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andre :

you're always so real. I wish the people who needed to hear this would listen

🐀 :

somewhat related, i really liked the “when/whenever” video and i started noticing people using ‘whenever’ way more often !! 🤓

Reteey :

wait could of isnt literally accurate 😭

Raquel :

sometimes I hear people choose to not use the past participle with a perfect tense and it’s interesting because i see it less as a mistake and more of an evolution in english

:) :

thank u for this !! for my english class i get to write an essay on the literacy crisis and this is something that truly doesnt mean that someone lacks literacy skills !!

blade :

i don’t get why we defend “could of” when it is pronounced completely differently than “could’ve” and wouldn’t logically make any sense in a sentence. “I could of sworn” and “I could’ve sworn” sound totally differently and using “of” instead of “‘ve” completely misses the point of the contraction when writing. is the word “have” fading out of use there with those words entirely? please someone explain this i’m genuinely confused

solika 𝜗𝜚 :

i don’t mean to be facetious and i’m genuinely asking, based off of this information is it wrong to correct someone’s grammar??

🔻🫧⚡️Marzmellow🪐✨🔻 :

love your content so much, keep eradicating ignorance 💜

nu_beenz :

grammar is a small part of literacy IMO. Comprehension and being able to use context is crucial.

Fake Hesap1137 :

but there has to be universal english language rules. otherwise how others could understand aave english or etc?

baconsalami :

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Charlotte :

I have always hated when people judge other for the way they talk.

Volta :

Also i noticed these comments kinda only got common when people made videos about it, jus makes me think that a lot peple correcting others even when its not related to the video didnt know it before watching videos about it and just wanna be rude

turek :

Bob :

kmoee 🙏🙏🙏

mia🫪 :

PEAK album

revolvingresidency :

and when I try to bring up in my ling classes that the research we have are based heavily on literacy, my profs tend to skirt the question 😭

thebadnegro (they/them) 🌱 :

I'm sorry.... I do be correcting my friends spelling 😂😭

Sammie5436 :

I took a course on this in graduate school and no