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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 20 quotes by John McWhorter John Hamilton McWhorter V (born 1965) is an American linguist and political commentator. He is the author of a number of books on language and on race relations. His research specialties are how creole languages form and how language grammars change as the result of sociohistorical phenomena. Read full biography of John McWhorter → 1 2 Ctrl → Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday. 0 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... → 0 Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk. 0 It would be good if teachers could genuinely understand that black English is not mistakes, it's just different English, and that what you want... → 0 Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in ways I have... → 0 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... → 0 'LOL' is one of several texting expressions that convey nuance in a system where you don't have the voice and face to do it the way you... → 0 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... → 0 Most languages spoken by a few thousand people are so complicated they make your head swim; a Siberian yak herder's language is much more... → 0 People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew. 0 Racism is not dead. Definitely, there are these biases. 0 The only way that residual racist feelings could affect legislation, in my opinion, is through a lack of priorities, from not doing things. 0 As far as I'm concerned, and this is a big theme of mine, I'm not interested in white people loving me. It's an unrealistic expectation.... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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