I came across this line tonight, in doing my reading for class:
The belief in the existence of some ‘inherently good’ variety of their language is one of the most deeply held tenets of public ideology in most Western countries. Yet a cursory inspection of the facts will reveal that these standard varieties are nothing more than the social dialect of the dominant classes.
From Guy, Gregory. 1989. “Language and social class.” Chapter 3. In Newmeyer, F. (Ed.), Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey IV. Language: The Socio-Cultural Context. Cambridge University Press. Pp. 37-63.
(This is something I was getting at with my post on language judgments from earlier this week. But this made the point so beautifully, I had to share.)
collecting tokens 
So there was something about the wording of this quote which made it inherently superior to what you wrote? Haven’t you just undermined your point? :-)
Here’s kind of an interesting tie-in: Hilary drawls in church, which is apparently meant to be scandalous to the right-wingers.
bs-
You’re trying to trick me into admitting something…
jwbates-
Interesting post. Thanks.