The Room for Debate blog series between Bryan A. Garner and Robert Lane Greene presents the reader with two distinct perspectives on various topics, including that of authority in language, what makes a good rule and a bad rule, and what is the purpose of these rules. After reading the articles and doing some research on the people they mention, I noticed that the majority of them, whether lexicographers, linguists or writers (descriptivists or prescriptivists), had a privileged education and were trained in prestigious universities. The definition of linguistics is “the scientific study of language and its structure,” and the definition of language is “the method of human communication, spoken or written.” Academics make up only a small percentage of British and American society (British and American English are the two variants mentioned in Room for Debate), and language is something that all humans use. Therefore in this essay I will analyze and explore Greene and Garner's views from a linguistic and social perspective. In his first article, When Prescriptivists over Prescribe, Greene begins by admitting that there is "a set of standard conventions that everyone needs to write and speak formally." which is sociolinguistically logical. A Brit who speaks with a "Received Pronunciation" accent pronounces the letter "t" in the word "Great Britain", but someone who speaks with a "Cockney" accent/dialect usually replaces phonemes with a stroke of glottis [bɹɪʔən]. Trying to communicate this through written language (graphemes) without using the prescribed "standard" variant would result in great confusion between different dialect areas, which could have a negative impact on society due to the inability of fellow citizens to communicate effectively. of paper...to social factors, one should expect to discover discriminations and injustices due to human nature, because these things exist in all societies in the world.which, in my opinion, want to be considered by society such as being “intelligent,” “superior,” or more “educated” than their counterparts. Well-educated British and American "prescriptivists" know how to use Standard English and Standard American English in a way that allows them to be "successful" (or at least not "smart"). penalized) within their society. However, the downside is that nothing is done about the stigma surrounding "the actual messiness of dialects and slang" that the "often incorrect prescriptivist masses" so easily mock. Tatjana Meschede; Sam Osoro (February 2013). “The Roots of the Growing Racial Wealth Gap: Explaining the Black-White Economic Divide” Oxford Dictionary