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Quatrarius · 2848 days ago · link · · parent · post: From the vault: African American Vernacular English is not Standard English with mistakes
No, that's not what it means at all. They aren't arguing there in that section that all dialects are separate, they're saying that "dialect" and "language" are classificatory terms that aren't inherently judging. That's why they go on to explain how nationalism can influence that classification. You yourself could make the argument that all varieties of a language count as separate languages, but the article I posted does not.