alleryWhat does prescription often do to non-standard dialects?
ARecord them in full
BDevalue them as lesser
CStandardise them
DTeach them first
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Devalue them as lesser
1. A second issue with prescriptivism is how it treats non-standard dialects.
2. It tends to explicitly devalue them.
3. Recording, standardising and teaching them first are not what critics describe.
_Source: Wikipedia, Linguistic prescription, Criticisms_
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