Re: Of accents & dialects

On 2008-10-21 R A Brown wrote:
> a Highland Scots or a West Country accent is generally considered
> more acceptable than, say, Cockney - but that's nothing to do with
> politics, just subjective social perception.
Just to clear up misunderstandings: I consider "subjective
social perception" a political thing, tho I may take
'political' in a wider meaning than what is now usual:
social groups, their interactions, agreements,
disagreements, inner and outer pressures is what
politics is all about, although the word has come to
be used mostly to refer to the formal rituals established
to deal with those forces.  If you think of it the
overlap between politics in this restricted sense
and diplomacy is rather great too.

/BP