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Res facta quae tamen fingi potuit ([personal profile] pauamma) wrote in [community profile] linguaphiles2020-02-21 09:22 pm

Native speaker valorization?

I came across https://twitter.com/ervinmalakaj/status/1230855895179022338 and I'm wondering: is that tweet referring to the same principle that says (paraphrased) "for questions of language usage correctness, always defer to native speakers' knowledge of their language"? If so, how does that critique deal with the opposite tendency (I'm not sure whether to call it neocolonialism or cultural imperialism) to mock native speakers of non-Western cultures based on misunderstandings of how their language works, saying in effect "they're not even able to speak their own language properly"?
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[personal profile] conuly 2020-02-22 08:32 am (UTC)(link)
Anybody who says the latter needs to die. That's how.
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[personal profile] conuly 2020-02-22 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Personal opinion, citation: me.
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[personal profile] cesy 2020-02-29 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I suspect it's challenging the idea of people who say that Indian English or Nigerian English are not as valid as American or Canadian or British or Australian English, despite all the same logic of being official primary language applying and having an equal claim to being native speakers.