Word On The Street: Debunking The Myth Of A Pure Standard EnglishThough there is a contingent of linguists who fight the fact, our language is always changing -- not only through slang, but sound, syntax, and words' meanings as well. Debunking the myth of "pure" standard English, tackling controversial positions, and eschewing politically correct arguments, linguist John McWhorter considers speech patterns and regional accents to demonstrate just how the changes do occur. Wielding reason and humor, McWhorter ultimately explains why we must embrace these changes, ultimately revealing our American English in all its variety, expressiveness, and power. |
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Debunking The Myth Of A Pure Standard English John Mcwhorter. Introduction. Not long ago, I ... English suffers from a mysterious gap, the absence of a genderneutral ... dialects as secondclass language, and reject the idea that people walk ...
Debunking The Myth Of A Pure Standard English John Mcwhorter. Introduction. Not long ago, I ... English suffers from a mysterious gap, the absence of a genderneutral ... dialects as secondclass language, and reject the idea that people walk ...
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Debunking The Myth Of A Pure Standard English John Mcwhorter. inductions, and trips ... English or languages of the world. Sandwiched in books like this, the ... dialects, none of which can logically be seen as degraded language because ...
Debunking The Myth Of A Pure Standard English John Mcwhorter. inductions, and trips ... English or languages of the world. Sandwiched in books like this, the ... dialects, none of which can logically be seen as degraded language because ...
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... dialects” are detours from an ideal, that Caribbean Creole languages are bastardizations of European languages, that ... English is enshrined in tidy print and spoken by the best and brightest, while other dialects are used mostly orally ...
... dialects” are detours from an ideal, that Caribbean Creole languages are bastardizations of European languages, that ... English is enshrined in tidy print and spoken by the best and brightest, while other dialects are used mostly orally ...
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... language of Chaucer, and only with great difficulty could we converse with him. We'd get a word here, a phrase there, but it would generally sound like a kaleidoscopic English in a bizarre accent, and we would at first wonder whether we ...
... language of Chaucer, and only with great difficulty could we converse with him. We'd get a word here, a phrase there, but it would generally sound like a kaleidoscopic English in a bizarre accent, and we would at first wonder whether we ...
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... language change than we do. Having written language—those snapshots—is what throws us. Because speaking is primarily an ... English changed much more from a.d. 1000 to 1400, before the invention of printing, than it has since. Even so ...
... language change than we do. Having written language—those snapshots—is what throws us. Because speaking is primarily an ... English changed much more from a.d. 1000 to 1400, before the invention of printing, than it has since. Even so ...
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