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A person you excuse from any genuine challenge is a person you do not truly respect.

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Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and distracts us from attending to genuine issues of linguistic style in writing.

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English, however, is kinky. It has a predilection for dressing up like Welsh on lonely nights.

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We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld.

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This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars. At this still hour the self-collected soul Turns inward, and beholds a stranger there Of high descent, and more than mortal rank; An embryo God; a spark of fire divine.
Anna Laetitia Barbauld

John McWhorter

John McWhorter

Born: October 6, 1965 (age 60)
Known for:
  1. Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue (2008)
  2. The Power of Babel (2001)
  3. The Language Hoax (2014)

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