Do you "over report" or "under report", or neither?

Molly · Tue Jul 15, 2008 16:46 pm *Do you "over report" or "under report", or neither?*

Extract:

"‘Over-reporting’ is when the subjects say they use the standard form more than they actually do. ‘Under-reporting’ is when subjects say they use the non-standard form more than they actually do (see Wardhaugh 200-201).

Trudgill found than women tend to over-report and men tend to under-report (1983: 89-92). This fits in with the hypercorrectness analyzed by Labov."

http://isg.urv.es/sociolinguistics/socio/trudgillinnorwich.doc

Do you (think)* you "over report", "under report", or neither?

*Edited for Amy's sake.

Yankee · Tue Jul 15, 2008 16:58 pm *Do you "over report" or "under report", or neither?*

It seems to me that people would generally not intentionally or knowingly "under-report" or "over-report" a certain usage.

If done unknowingly, how on earth should someone be able to say whether they under-report or over-report?

If someone does happen to do this knowingly, it seems to me that your question is thus akin to asking people to tell you that they lie about their use of language.

Sheesh.
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Molly · Tue Jul 15, 2008 18:22 pm *Do you "over report" or "under report", or neither?*

Yankee · Tue Jul 15, 2008 18:33 pm *Do you "over report" or "under report", or neither?*

Molly · Tue Jul 15, 2008 18:45 pm *Do you "over report" or "under report", or neither?*

Yankee · Tue Jul 15, 2008 18:57 pm *Do you "over report" or "under report", or neither?*

Did you understand my usage of the word "sheesh"? Rolling Eyes

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Molly · Tue Jul 15, 2008 19:05 pm *Do you "over report" or "under report", or neither?*

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