English, however, is kinky. It has a predilection for dressing up like Welsh on lonely nights.
People have been warning us that language was going to the dogs ever since Latin started turning into French. Yet the dogs in question never seem to … - John H. Mcwhorter
People have been warning us that language was going to the dogs ever since Latin started turning into French. Yet the dogs in question never seem to …
- John H. Mcwhorter
The black conservative is responsible for making people question an idea that racism must be extinct before black people can overcome. Understanding … - John H. Mcwhorter
The black conservative is responsible for making people question an idea that racism must be extinct before black people can overcome. Understanding …
No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty. - John H. Mcwhorter
No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty.
We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld. - John H. Mcwhorter
We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld.
Texting is very loose in its structure. No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts, but then again, do you think about those t… - John H. Mcwhorter
Texting is very loose in its structure. No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts, but then again, do you think about those t…
Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday. - John H. Mcwhorter
Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.
Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk. - John H. Mcwhorter
Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk.
Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-s… - John H. Mcwhorter
Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-s…
Every third person in the world is a drama queen. And crying 'victim,' especially when you're not really a victim in any real way, feels good. It fee… - John H. Mcwhorter
Every third person in the world is a drama queen. And crying 'victim,' especially when you're not really a victim in any real way, feels good. It fee…
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