"Be very careful when talking to a person about their accent," my wife Caron said to me with a raised eyebrow. "Someone at work said they talked to a linguist who explained how offensive that is. They said accents don't exist anymore?"
Caron works in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). And even though her comment didn't stem from one of her official trainings, the idea that this notion could be spreading bothered me.
