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John McWhorter
276 pages • first pub 2003 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 0434010588
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Language: English
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Once languages become written, they change. Only in writing does language develop the artfulness and richness that we associate with a Shakespeare, a Proust or a Whitman. Yet over the last forty years, the English-language has effectively gone int...
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John McWhorter
276 pages • first pub 2003 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 0434010588
Format: Not specified
Language: English
Publisher: Not specified
Edition Pub Date: Not specified
Description
Once languages become written, they change. Only in writing does language develop the artfulness and richness that we associate with a Shakespeare, a Proust or a Whitman. Yet over the last forty years, the English-language has effectively gone int...