Modern and Historical Prescriptivist Complaints

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What could be causing low intelligibility in language

Dialects and new slang

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What are 4 main complaints prescriptivists currently have about language now

Americanisms

Low literacy rates

Poor pronunciation

Intelligibility (slang)

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What are some of examples of speech habits commonly perceived as “bad”

Glottal stops in place of Ts

Uptalk and vocal fry

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What did John Walker say about pronunciation in his pronunciation guide

Peasants have “vulgar pronunciation”

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What did Samuel Johnson say about East Midlands pronunciations

East Midlands (Cambridge, Oxford) pronunciations are “elegant”

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