American English is possibly the single most direct,
egalitarian dialect in the world
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- There are no rank distinctions beyond the optional use of titles. No distinctions between intimate, general, or formal address. The language treats everyone as equal, which in turn tends to make it easier to think of everyone as having equal worth as a person.
And Texan is possibly the most extreme sub-dialect
Texan is the only sub-dialect worth knowing. If you can talk to a Texan, you can talk to a REAL American.
I am SOOOOOOO tired of all the Jersey/NYC dialects we are subjected to on the news every day, mixed with that whiny Valley Girl upward inflection all the snowflakes (and even some people way too old to be snowflakes but who are apparently wannabe snowflakes) use at the end of every sentence, even if it's not a question. It's like their begging to be listened to, or to be taken seriously (even if their nonsense is totally unworthy of a hearing.)
Do you know what I'm talking about? I always yell at the T.V. when they do that... "Are you asking us, or telling us?"
That's about as cherry picked a line from an article about Writing characters that "think differently" when the author means to write characters have different reactions to situations which is oddly past the authors grasp that people raised somewhere else won't share the same ideals and that's when in the same thought her logic states that, despite culture, two siblings can have quite different ideals but somehow the differences are inconcevibly many as the author cannot fathom how despite different countries ideals can be sharred, but which is clear why they said that when in the next part ideals are brought back to Reactions when after which the author goes on to say that what differs isn't how people react but their cultural upbringing and their experiences, which doesn't do anything to establsh why we went from Reactions to Ideals, and back to Reactions while never establishing why and how people react the same. Should we entertain her hypothesis of how a girl in Saudi Arabia behaves if shes "odd" all to tell us that English is the most egalitarian language (because she's clearly a language expert)? Nope, it's simply to nag about how some book's characters ought to "think differently" a vague phrase that HARDLY means what it says and in it's seeking for "individuality" and "specialness" with the "odd people" that are "awkward" the author deserves a "very special" sticker.
On a side note about "individuality". How does that phrase go:
Divide and Conquer.