Sociolinguistic Artifacts

This is a link to a tweet containing a TikTok video. In the video, a man sits in a chair and says words in "Basic English," and then "Advanced English." Some pairs include, "helpful," & "advantageous," and, "many," & "numerous." By labeling certain English words as "advanced" and others as "basic,"when in reality the words have nuances of difference in their meaning, this TikTok-er peddles the ideology that there is a hierarchy of words and ways of communicating. This video was tweeted out by The Layman's Linguist with the caption, "I hate this." [Published on 02-27-2021]