one thing that has always stuck with me from *The Fall of the Roman Empire* is how important acquired language & learning was to mark off class status of 4th-century civilian aristocrats. educations were $. hard to fake signal https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195325419/geneexpressio-20 … https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1050048504171782145 …
-V- here explores the prestige-dialect idea:https://www.socialmatter.net/2017/02/06/ever-wanted-know-virtue-signals/ …