On The Intolerance of Non-Standard American Englishes
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] My Mother’s English [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Last spring, I read Mother Tongue, an essay novelist Amy Tan had written about her mother’s English. Tan’s mother, who had immigrated to the U.S., held an “expressive command” of English. [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]But her mother’s English was also grammatically imperfect. Because of this, she was ignored, mistreated by workers in department stores,…