[ExI] Linguistic Markers of Class

[Damien Broderick]

At 05:30 PM 5/27/2007 -0400, gts wrote:

> > But for me, *nothing* reveals class so surely as the way that people
> > speak.
>
>Really? I'm much more interested in the way people act.

Different metric entirely. You seem to imply something like "class" = 
"degree of right acting" or the like. Class is a contingent 
sociological adjunct, no more an index of moral worth than eye color, 
height, or the ability to smell asparagus in your piss. (The first 
two are, granted, usually class markers as well.)

Damien Broderick