this is every interesting I used to want to be a linguist...idk if I want to do that now or just you know talk to ppl in other languages for the enjoyment of it....oh but lots of African Americans have known this forever...you always abandon your colliqual accents for the white middle america one when it comes to calling businesses. Sad but true this is the world we live in.
Become a linguistic anthropologist. Linguistics couldn't care less about the speakers of a language. Linguistics is all cognitive understanding of language.
it's great for linguists! but i agree... we can't assume that non-native speakers of English can discriminate between different varieties of accented English!
Hm--the awareness is good. But can't one be discriminated during that phone call to the place one calls to report the discrimination in the first place? Additionally, people with accented English may not be able to fully understand this advertisement, which uses rather rapidly spoken English.
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CelticKraut 1 year ago
Housing discrimination! now thats something the feds can do absolutely nothing about.
newbutton7 2 years ago
this is every interesting I used to want to be a linguist...idk if I want to do that now or just you know talk to ppl in other languages for the enjoyment of it....oh but lots of African Americans have known this forever...you always abandon your colliqual accents for the white middle america one when it comes to calling businesses. Sad but true this is the world we live in.
BlaqueRebel 2 years ago
Become a linguistic anthropologist. Linguistics couldn't care less about the speakers of a language. Linguistics is all cognitive understanding of language.
AndyITALY07 2 years ago
Awesome. You'd be suprised how often this occurs. I was told to us it when booking rooms for a resort in FL.
LynRuiz 4 years ago
it's great for linguists! but i agree... we can't assume that non-native speakers of English can discriminate between different varieties of accented English!
linguistica78 4 years ago
Hm--the awareness is good. But can't one be discriminated during that phone call to the place one calls to report the discrimination in the first place? Additionally, people with accented English may not be able to fully understand this advertisement, which uses rather rapidly spoken English.
But alas, linguistics is so interesting.
Harmonikdiskorde 5 years ago