American English - how she is spoke
Today's NYT carries a piece on John McWhorter's views on the way Americans 'use' English. Short excerpt from the article:"The linguist and cultural critic John McWhorter cites these excerpts in his...
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Quote:We in America now are an anomaly .......... We have very little sense of English as something to be dressed up. It's just this thing that comes out of our mouths. We just talkAs opposed to we...
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> As opposed to we British, who mentally both construct our sentences and check them for errors in style, grammar, syntax, etc, before we give utterance to our thoughts.Yes, we are well aware of...
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Interesting. I'm an admirer of McWhorter's earlier books. He seems to be running against his previous conclusions in this one.But there seems to be a subtle point that is lost (almost) on the Times...
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With any luck, Senator Byrd might be good for another hundred years.
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I am not sure that changes in a direction I do not like should be called "degradation". Of course the language and music is changing and not surprisingly I do not always like the newer stuff but...
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I do like the "English" style of English. And a lot of Americans look up to the English as our brothers and sisters. I am quite certain I have a distant cousin living in the UK.Am I taking this in the...
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ONF, a quick visit here would show you how to abuse a language. We've discussed UK vs American English before and no definitive conclusions were reached as to the future development or convergence of...
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