Summary myth 8

Children Can’t Speak or Write Properly Any More

For centuries there have been complaints about the state of the English language. These complaints always seem to assume that the language is in decline and the decline has to be associated with moral decline. Especially the younger generation would be the problem. Their ability to speak the language is just as good, and their ability to read and write it is, almost certainly, a great better on average as the older generation. The children have to speak and write in “standard English”. This is normally used in the upper an upper-middle classes and this is a small group. All the others versions of English would be wrong and have no grammar, this is al not true. This al has to do with social discrimination, saying that regional speech isn’t good and this will continue.