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Do you think it ironic that there is interest in some of these languages at the same time there is such hostility to other languages and nonstandard dialects?
In many cases, it must be acknowledged, the speaker or writer has not been exposed to the opportunities that would enable him to distinguish between what is regarded as standard usage versus nonstandard, hence, it might be said that he is not responsible for using nonstandard English.
Fox, citing various linguists and explaining things quite clearly, said that negative reactions to nonstandard dialects are the result of social factors, not linguistic ones; the dialects--whether "ebonics," Brooklynese, or Peter Jennings'--are just as regular and logical as any other variety of English.
The KLM pilot's otherwise perplexing use of the very nonstandard phrase at take-off, rather than the more standard phrase taking off, appears to have been a subtle form of what linguists call code-switching, a process in which bilingual or multilingual speakers inadvertently switch back and forth from one of their languages to another in the course of a conversation.
Put another way, the acceptance of nonstandard language to replace the comfortable protection offered by linguistic purism amounts to moving the goalposts in a game that they have been playing for their entire lives according to a different set of rules.