A Comprehensible standard

A Comprehensible Standard

The current world we live in is changing at an astoundingly fast pace. With the advance of technology, communication and transportation, cultures that previously had no chance in communicating with one another can now interact with one another on a daily basis in academic, social, and professional settings. This phenomenon, known as globalization, is truly changing the world we live in. This globalized atmosphere has integrated many aspects of different cultures into one another and has changed everything from what we eat to how we speak. The English language has dramatically changed, as a result. New words have been incorporated to accommodate the numerous dialects, to the dismay of zealous linguists. This leads many to question how much of the other dialects can be incorporated and whether or not a standard should be adhered to. Having numerous dialects makes communication in academic/ professional settings quite difficult and subsequently leads to misunderstandings and uncertainty to be common place among professionals and academics alike. In order to eliminate this ambiguity, Standard Written English is used.

Standard Written English is the written and spoken form of English that is taught in educational institutions in America and used by academics as set by authoritative scholars, grammarians and linguists of the English language. Although there is controversy on whether or not this is indeed “the” standard, it has established itself as so. Many professional/educational settings establish this form of speech into their environments and other dialects are not readily acknowledged.

A Caucasian person from the Midwestern region of America working with an African American who speaks Standard Black Eng...

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...ffered greatly from those that were used by the French. This led to many difficulties in sharing discoveries and communicating data. This was an issue that was not taken lightly by leading scientists and the need for a standard was urgent. The French established a more comprehensive metric standard that has been adopted by scientists all over the world. This standard that was developed allowed scientists from places such as Japan to easily communicate scientific findings with scientists in the United States and practically with the rest of the world. In the same way that this system was used to eliminate ambiguity, Standard Written English was established to lessen the misunderstandings that may result from the numerous dialects that are found among those who speak the English language.

Works Cited

R.L. Trask, Dictionary of English Grammar. Penguin, 2000