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Originally Posted by rat
Language, while requiring education, is by no means wielded only in a simple, singular fashion by anyone. In fact, you'll find the greater the language skills of an individual, the more likely they are to pick up and subsequently use both the syntax, the idioms, the slang terms, and the pronunciation of other groups as they spend time around them.
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I forgot to touch on this. Intelligence\education has a correlational relationship with language - not a causal one. I'm not sure how clear that statement is, so I'll restate it. Intelligence and education may cause you to speak in a classy or politically correct manner, but one can certainly speak in a "dirtier" manner and be intelligent and\or educated. Assuming certain things about someone based on their linguistic stylings seems pretty judgemental and un-PC. 
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