Letter to the Editor

As seen in the original article from Yale, It satirically disparages the misuse of English by comparing people who can break syntax rules to people who do not follow rules of proper English. If that is the case, what exactly is proper English? Is it what you intellectuals refer as ‘Educated English’? In my opinion, different regional differences in English are just not ‘colorful’ but also ‘proper’.  According to one of the examples you pointed out, comparing English to History and arguing that not every interpretation of history is correct, English is an immutable fact, which cannot be manipulated nor developed; however, this is genuinely wrong.  If English were to be History, it should have a result of open-ended consequences.  And I say these consequences are different kinds of English-comprising syntax, phonology, and etc.

In the Land of Oz, there were diverse people with diverse characteristics. And “Bad English” or “Uneducated English” should be one of those characteristics!  By exploiting these characteristics at the finest and respecting these characteristics, the Wicked Witch of the West will fall and everlasting peace will descend upon Yale.

Furthermore, these developed so-called different English(es) aren’t just rule-broken English(es). Instead, they encompass and exhibit their own specialty of having different grammatical logic and structure to incorporate meanings. For instance, the AAVE (African American Vernacular English) has amassed praise-worthiness by its significance in expressing their sorrow of slavery and occupation through its different grammatical logic and structure. Thus, I recommend that it is now time to create a change in stubborn English; this could be only achieved by causing a crack in rules of “Standard English” bit by bit and consequently causing a subversive earthquake