I'm sitting here weighing the idea that you could get rid of a lot of what's toxic about the word "working-class" (as well as misleading, hypocritical, inconsistent, etc.) in ordinary discourse by just committing to saying "poor" instead
Daisy Ridley *does* do a different accent as Rey but only in the sense that she speaks "movie RP" (not quite as posh as the Queen, but very "proper") while her everyday accent has a few more glottal stops But I think that's code-switching most Brits of her class do all the time
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Yeah, code-switching is pretty much a necessary skill if you want to get taken even remotely seriously over here.
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One of the things that keeps the traditional working class down is that they often grow up without learning to code-switch the way lower-middle-class kids do.
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