atw: Re: Youse [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
- From: Peter.Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:43:26 +1100
Ros:
> I've been thinking that the Aussie youse I've heard is mainly from
indigenous folk, but maybe it's also working class Aussies?
Without wanting to pick on Ros in particular (others have ventured into
this territory), I really query this easy assumption about "class". It
tends to latch itself also onto associations with broad Australian accents
etc, and smacks of Pommiedom to me (to introduce my own
statistically-well-established bias).
Use of language, including accents and vocabulary choices, goes quite a
way beyond "class" boundaries. I can think of a range of people I know
which includes the odd historian, a medical specialist or two, a few
literary figures, some politicians and public servants etc etc who use
various forms of the vernacular and often with some of the broadest of
accents. And then, of course, there are the engineers.
Assumptions that tend to follow the class assumption then may include:
a.) working class people generally aren't educated
b.) ergo their language usage is "wrong" etc
Wrong.
Peter G Martin
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