"You're (sic) speaking skills definitely don't say 4.2. Perhaps you could use your Stanford education to find ways to speak in complete sentences."

a) Was I wrong? Nope.

How long have you known him?

"the majority of the backlash against Sherman was from the black community"

Implying that somebody is unintelligent because he speaks with a black American dialect is racist, just as it would be if you were judging somebody's intelligence based on a Mexican or Japanese accent. If you do it you should stop because it makes you come off as ignorant.

Of course! James Pollard! Why didn't I think of him?

By spending zero time paying attention to sports.

If you were discussing the weather it might make sense to bring meteorology into the conversation right? Linguists and anthropologists who study the way that languages work and how they evolve have come to the consensus (a long time ago mind you) that the specific grammatical rules of a language or dialect are…

To anyone who knows anything about linguistics or anthropology you're the one who sounds like an idiot. But then with a screen name like that I imagine that ignorance is a point of pride for you.

"that various groups of people have agreed go together to mean certain things."

There is no "Standard American English" as it relates to either phonology, morphology, syntax or even semantics. It doesn't exist and never did. If you'd like to learn a little more about the subject here's a recent interview with one of the top sociolinguists on the subject:

What is that difference exactly? That everybody should communicate the way that whites from the Northeast do because they are the most powerful linguistic minority in the United States? Everybody thinks that the language that their ear is used to is the correct way to communicate "if you are trying to present yourself…

That's written english, which is very different and doesn't pertain to this story. Explain your "standard grammatical rules" bit to EVERY. SINGLE. LINGUIST/ANTHROPOLOGIST. EVER.

You've taken a few linguistics courses haven't you? I was just having a conversation with somebody the other day about how funny it is to us that so many self-described "educated" people pontificate about the correct, "educated" way to use English, when all that really does is betray their lack of education when it…

The "standard form of English" of which you speak is actually composed of numerous dialects. If you hear people speak in a recognizable dialect or creole and you think to yourself "these people are poorly educated," it's actually a reflection on your education—specifically that you have never studied language or…

No there isn't "absolutely a right and wrong" when it comes to "correct grammar and syntax." There are deep structural rules that all languages follow, but the particularities are unimportant and always in flux. For instance, beginning a sentence with "and" as you have done would have gotten you an F a few decades…

Ask a linguist or read a book about linguistics. The people whose job it is to study grammar and syntax and record these "rules" completely disagree with you.

Take an intro to linguistics class. You sound foolish and ignorant to anyone who has.

Please post the 101 best year-end lists you've posted in the last week.

To be fair, Amare's swollen kneecaps do take up a lot of space.