Reply #142: There's a difference between local dialects and bad English. [View All]

[tjwmason]

My ancestral homeland is Yorkshire, the location of one of the most charming English dialects - I've got no problem at all with a person who upon meeting me in the street would say:

"Ey-up, 'az tha bin?"

Rather than:

"Good morning, how are you doing today?"

Which is an entirely different concept to thinking that "could of" is correct usage, or that "I could care less" means that one is utterly uninterested in a subject.