[washingtonismoney]

To expand on stupac's point, something like African-American Vernacular -- to put it in linguists' terms -- is actually highly grammatical. But it has its own grammar, distinct from upper middle class white people grammar. To say that upper middle class white people grammar is somehow a marker of intelligence or what-have-you seems strange.

Now, if someone isn't writing by the rules of any grammar, that's bad and deserves opprobrium.

[washingtonismoney]

To expand on stupac's point, something like African-American Vernacular -- to put it in linguists' terms -- is actually highly grammatical. But it has its own grammar, distinct from upper middle class white people grammar. To say that upper middle class white people grammar is somehow a marker of intelligence or what-have-you seems strange.

Now, if someone isn't writing by the rules of any grammar, that's bad and deserves opprobrium.