Linguistic equality (episode 1)

All native-speaker accents and dialects are created equal. This isn't an opinion, it's what we know to be the case from linguistics, the scientific study of language. Native speaker accents and dialects are all equally "correct"—"correctness", when it comes to comparing them, is just a matter of social prestige. #accents #dialects #linguistics #language #linguisticequality #accentbias #linguisticdiscrimination / #sociolinguistics #oralrelativity #standardlanguageideology #dialectcoaching #accentsarecomplicated #languageisamarvel