Quote Originally Posted by Crankin View Post
The "I seen" and "he don't" are much more prevalent in other parts of the country, even among well educated speakers. If someone spoke like that here, even in a social situation, it would not be seen as something positive. Yea, we are language snobs here, so don't start yelling!
"I seen" and "he don't" are not acceptable among educated speakers in any part of the country. When I moved to the northeastern U.S. from the south, I did notice that some people believed that, and I really had to bite my tongue to stop myself from pointing out their grammatical errors.

In written communication, the people I worked with in the northeast were actually worse than southerners, but that might be a function of the corporate structure. I did notice that people in the northeast simply would not believe that there are rules about use of language. One person told me that she didn't want to use hyphenated modifiers because "it looks funny."

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