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Encourages readers to establish a boundary between an acceptable evolution of language and outright language misuse, predicting the consequences of the overuse of street English in today's writing, music, and society. By the author of The Power of Babel. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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John McWhorter is an associate professor of linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley. His books include Authentically Black, The Power of Babel, and the New York Times bestseller Losing the Race: Self- Sabotage in Black America, and his articles appear regularly in The New Republic and The Wall Street Journal.
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"Illustrated with an entertaining array of examples from both high and low culture, the trend that Mr. McWhorter documents is unmistakable." The Economist
"Provocative, funny. . . McWhorter suggests that prose ought to be something we decorate out of a basic sense of exuberance of living. " Andrea Behr, San Francisco Chronicle
"An entertaining and provocative analysis of the way we use language, while also suggesting that we should love it." Charles Matthews, San Jose Mercury News
"McWhorter is a gifted young linguist who seeks to understand the change in our verbal habits rather than just bemoan it, and his analysis is insightful, richly documented and, yes, eloquently written." Steven Pinker, author of The Blank Slate and The Language Instinct
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