Re: The monumental stupidity of PIE theorists further illustrated

On Jul 28, 1:44 am, analys...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


And "Me can't believe you finally send de album!" is bad/wrong/
substandard English, but I guess it is correct Reggae.

There is no language called Reggae. There is a language called
Jamaican Patois, which is an offshoot of English. Precisely because it
is so different from Standard English, it would be amply justified to
codify a separate standard language for it and issue schoolbooks and
scientific literature in it.

It is of course different from standard English, but it is a
linguistic variety spoken natively by real people and transmitted
naturally from generation to generation, and as such it cannot be
"bad" or "wrong".
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