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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
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Is this Standard English, IYO?

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No.

— Forbes

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But how can you know, Forbes?
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If you don't believe that anyone can know the answer, why ask the question?

I just gave my opinion.
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I didn't say that no one could know the answer, I merely asked how you knew. Surely one knows something is Standard English because some authority has told them it's so. If not, we have a situation where any speaker can insist that something is standard.
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AnonymousSurely one knows something is Standard English because some authority has told them it's so.

I doubt that it's such a pedestrian and conscious process, for most native speakers.

It might be true to say that you know that something is standard English until someone who seems like an authority tells you it's not, on the other hand. At whic
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