Say what? Reflecting on spoken language
The plus side to turning 40 http://xkcd.com/166/ Over the past few weeks I've been getting my Year 11s to analyse their idiolect for a Spoken Language controlled assessment as part of the specification for GCSE English Language . The task was to "Reflect on the way you speak including criticism made of it by adults". The Daily Mail (always an excellent source of vitriol and biased reportage) says in a typically pious piece headlined Innits and aints drive me insane! that "plummy" actress Emma Thompson is heartily sick of teenagers' sloppy use of English. In it she urges young people: [...]