covert prestige

noun

Definitions

  1. Prestige acquired in a community by using a non-standard language variety, such as a…

    Prestige acquired in a community by using a non-standard language variety, such as a working-class dialect.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for covert prestige. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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