alects. Perhaps this is because of a prejudice,sort of "once slang, always slang" mentality. The Conservatives should usethe kids' dialects to help the kids learn standard English. Conservatives have one reason to oppose language progression: fear. Conservatives have a fear that the language they speak will not be theprimary one. For this reason, they will put down other dialects simplybecause these dialects are not standard English. Standard English is justanother dialect, however, and thinking one dialect greater than another ismere bigotry. If Conservatives had their way, people would never be ableto express themselves in new ways because there would never be any newwords. There would be academies for English, academies that go againstevery principle of freedom to which speakers of English are heir....
