BELIEFS ABOUT LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL GROUPS
The article examines how ordinary people evaluate languages and social groups. Some unprofessional ideas and ingrained misconceptions related to languages are also analyzed, for example, that some languages lack grammar, that it is possible to speak English without an accent, that French is more logical than English, that there are primitive languages, that English is degenerating, that language standards are declining, that pronunciation should be based on spelling and so on.