What is "Proper" English?

The only people who say "proper english" are white people in this section who think blacks have to talk like them in order to be accepted more.

Same with "normal" names.

Proper English

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What is "Proper" English?

If "proper English" exists anywhere it's in text. It would be an incredible pain in the *** to have to make the effort to use proper syntax, clauses, and grammar in speech, which is why most people don't.

1. Avoid alliteration. Always.

2. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.

4. Employ the vernacular.

5. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.

6. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.

7. Remember to never split an infinitive.

8. Contractions aren't necessary.

9. Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.

10. One should never generalize.

11. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "I hate

quotations. Tell me what you know."

12. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.

13. Don't be redundant; don't use more words than necessary; it's

highly superfluous.

14. Be more or less specific.

15. Understatement is always best.

16. One-word sentences? Eliminate.

17. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.

18. The passive voice is to be avoided.

19. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.

20. Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.

21. Who needs rhetorical questions?

22. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.

23. Don't never use a double negation.

24. capitalize every sentence and remember always end it with point

25. Do not put statements in the negative form.

26. Verbs have to agree with their subjects.

27. Proofread carefully to see if you words out.

28. If you reread your work, you can find on rereading a great deal

of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing.

29. A writer must not shift your point of view.

30. And don't start a sentence with a conjunction.

(Remember, too, a preposition is a terrible word

to end a sentence with.)

31. Don't overuse exclamation marks!!

32. Place pronouns as close as possible, especially in long sentences,

as of 10 or more words, to their antecedents.

33. Writing carefully, dangling participles must be avoided.

34. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.

35. Take the bull by the hand and avoid mixing metaphors.

36. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.

37. Everyone should be careful to use a singular pronoun

with singular nouns in their writing.

38. Always pick on the correct idiom.

39. The adverb always follows the verb.

40. Last but not least, avoid cliches like the plague;

They're old hat; seek viable alternatives

OR

1.Don't abbrev.

2.Check to see if you any words out.

3.Be carefully to use adjectives and adverbs correct.

4.About sentence fragments.

5.When dangling, don't use participles.

6.Don't use no double negatives.

7.Each pronoun agrees with their antecedent.

8.Just between you and I, case is important.

9.Join clauses good, like a conjunction should.

10.Don't use commas, that aren't necessary.

11.Its important to use apostrophe's right.

12.It's better not to unnecessarily split an infinitive.

13.Never leave a transitive verb just lay there without an object.

14.Only Proper Nouns should be capitalized. also a sentence should

begin with a capital and end with a period

15.Use hyphens in compound-words, not just in any two-word phrase.

16.In letters compositions reports and things like that we use commas

to keep a string of items apart.

17.Watch out for irregular verbs which have creeped into our language.

18.Verbs has to agree with their subjects.

19.Avoid unnecessary redundancy.

20.A writer mustn't shift your point of view.

21.Don't write a run-on sentence you've got to punctuate it.

22.A preposition isn't a good thing to end a sentence with.

23.Avoid cliches like the plague.

24.It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.

25.Profanity sucks.

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Wikipedia states "The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) states that the earliest recorded sense of the word 'English' is "Of or belonging to the group of Teutonic peoples collectively known as the Angelcynn [...] comprising the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, who settled in Britain during the 5th c.". However, the OED continues that...." So anybody claiming to English is also admitting to be of immigrant decent. My surname came over with the Normans in 1066 - One of Wm the Conqueror's generals shares the same surname as me, so I am of immigrant stock, too! Just as "France" is a corruption of "Franks" a tribe that lived in Germany! Edit : For those that claim to be "pure" Scottish, ain't no such animal, the Vikings pretty much settled all of Scotland and the Scottish surname "Wallace" is a literal translation of "Welsh" Or Irish descent, like Graham Norton, perhaps? "Irish folk music" has the same roots as Spanish Flamenco music - brought over by "gypsies" who originated in India. Red-headed celts? No, Viking descent. Robert the Bruce? Scottish? No, a descendant of William the Conqueror.

No such thing. There is only such thing as ''Standard English''. For example here in the UK, Standard British English is our Standard English.

non Standard British English comes in many dialects such as Cockney, Scouse, Mancunian, Geordie etc. Just like non Standard American English comes in many dialects such as African American Vernacular English (Ebonics), New York etc I don't really know the rest.

If Americans think Ebonics is hard to understand they have not heard some of the dialects up Northern England which makes Ebonics sound posh lol.

Technically, there's no such thing. Even here in England, the version of English we speak now is significantly different to what we would have spoken in the Middle Ages, for example. All languages evolve and change and therefore, whichever version you speak is correct for your surroundings.

Here in the UK, for UK residents, 'proper' or 'correct' English would be standard, Queen's English.

You would only be using 'improper' English for example if you lived or visited the UK and used American spellings, but it would be the same if a British person visited or lived in the US and used UK spellings.

Proper English is English that is proper.

Ha!

Jk, I don't know how to describe it.

RP English is proper English the English spoken in The BBC.