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Thursday, April 5, 2007

"Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music, and Why We Should, Like, Care" (Gotham Books, 2003). Anything but a catchy title. The author, John McWhorter, seems to go out of his way to perpetrate the very linguistic sins he laments. He gives no real reason "why we should, like, care." And he ends with no suggestions for reversing or even halting the "degradation."

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