Is Standard English to be encouraged?

• Would people want to give up their own versions of Standard English, to one that they don’t have any connections with at all? Would YOU change your pronunciation, your grammar AND your every-day life expressions because people think it ISN’T correct? Well, NO, because language as each one of us speaks it, is how it becomes part of our identity, of who we really are. No one has the right to come and strip you from what is yours. And if they do such thing, they would be attempting against your culture, because language is linked to your culture.
• Language evolution is natural and inevitable process. Languages change, usually very slowly, sometimes very rapidly and there are many reasons why a language might change. One obvious reason is interaction with other languages. For example, if one tribe of people trades with another, they will pick up specific words and phrases for trade objects.  If a small but powerful tribe subdues a larger one, we find that the language of the elite often shows the influence of constant interaction with the majority, while the majority language imports vocabulary and speaking styles from the elite language. In fact, English is an example of this. Between the 17th and 19th centuries, around 4 millions of black people were taken from Africa to the Caribbean by Europeans as slaves. They were mixed up with according to their languages to avoid them from plotting and as a result they created a secret language taking the vocabulary of the slaves owners but using a grammar based on their original African language creating PIDGIN. Then the children born the slavery adopted Pidgin as their mother tong and that’s how it became a Creole. These people that some time later went to England were discriminated because of the way they spoke. Because of the Creole origins their language has. THE PROPOSING TEAM wants to destroy the history found in their language.
• Moreover, The “Fawlty Towers” attitude to English of its non-native speakers is having a great impact amongst people that speak the language. Merely because it is described as falwty and therefore, not correct since it differs from the Standard English versions. The negativity is causing great emotional and internal problems among these people. They are been judge because of their different pronunciation and accents. For example, people in Hong Kong and South Korea are opting for extreme solutions such as tongue surgery or therapy. The extreme results are that people who don’t speak a native variety of English suffer either from a psychological or physical deficiency.

• Furthermore, (American and British Englishes) Standard English is spoken by a very small number of people. According to the 2000 census made in the US and to the 2001 census made in England about 330 million people speak Standard English and there are around 65 varieties of Englishes, so why to oblige a bigger number of people change or adapt their language to a smaller variety of English that only few people speak?

Accent1: Accent is the way a person speaks, with differences in the sounds that can show the place a person comes from, or their social class.

Dialect2: Specific vocabulary, syntax (or sentence structure) and grammar of one particular variety of English, including the way its speakers pronounce it.