Grammar Not-zi

The Vocal Fries - A podcast by The Vocal Fries

Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk about prescriptive grammar, grammar peeving, and how most of the rules you were taught about English were made up by a few white dudes way back when. Turns out, prescriptivism is racist, classist, and ableist, and enforcing these rules kinda make you a jerk. They also discuss how they had been trained in high school to be prescriptivists, and how linguistics helped them become less biased.TranscriptWe're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could ...