What Dialect Says About Race and Class in ‘The Wire’

Linguistics are able to tell an interesting story about the social hierarchy

Shawn Laib
An Injustice!
Published in
14 min readFeb 1, 2021

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Language is clearly more than just a way to communicate with one another, but many mistake differences in communication style with low intellect and other discriminatory aspersions cast upon minorities.

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University of Washington Class of 2020 in English Literature and fan of video games and basketball. Twitter: @LaibShawn