i have no problem with this. Kids SHOULD learn proper English (of the relevant dialect) at school. They can speak jive when they are off grounds.

Same thing with "ebonics". It's crippling many blacks. Conservatives tolerate it because it encourages black separatism and hurts them in the job market, plus it saves money by not having to hire good teachers for brown kids. Liberals tolerate it because they don't want to hurt people feewings by correcting a kid's subject verb agreement. Blacks tolerate it out of separatism. They're all wrong.

Schools should be required to teach proper English. The only way to do that is to correct mistakes. They can end sentences with prepositions at home.

"but but but it's OK to end sentences w. prepositsuns, langwij evolzs LLOOLOoLOo!!!11!one! (or whatever rule you're too dumb to follow)"

That sophomoric attitude is enabling laziness and ignorance. Schools shouldn't be in the business of enabling those traits. Prepositions create a socket, establishing the relationship between the verb on the left and the noun on the right. You have to be AT some place or some time. You are going TO somewhere. You are coming FROM somewhere. There must be a reason FOR whatever you're doing.

To our dear Limey friends' credit, Cockney slang has to be one of the more inventive, difficult, and creative types of slang out there. Not only can people just make up totally new words on the fly, but the person listening then has to decipher these words. It is truly a thinking man's slang.

Me
Bally Jerry pranged his kite right in the how's your father. Hairy blighter, dicky-birdied, feathered back on his Sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harper's and caught his can in the Bertie.

As far as I can make out, this means something like "Damned German farked ((how's your father?)) up his plane. Hirsute rascal {unspecified aerial maneuver}, fiddled with the throttle, {more maneuver}, turned upside down and..." I want to say the last bit is "crashed into the ocean".

/used to be fluent in Pommy
//damned Chavs have bastardised the language beyond comprehensibility

We ought to close any school that aims at "getting understood."

You Americans keep chuffing the back with every straight seven that comes through. Sticking a two on the six would really John Major up your day and stop you from harvesting shredded wheat whenever an Englishman jumped down the hole with the new documents.