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The latest word on the street about English in America – always bad, it seems – is that the shaggy construction of texting and e-mail spells the death of formal writing. Yet the truth about English in America – always sunnier, in fact – is that the looseness and creativity of these new ways of writing are a sign of a new sophistication in our society. This becomes clear when we understand that in the proper sense, e-mail and texting are not writing at all.
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McWhorter makes only one bad assumption in this article—I would gladly give every t-shirt I own for a lifetime of...
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oh my god so perfect
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yes yes yes to the article and the commentary. People have been fretting over the death of the English language since...
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Great article, but frankly the idea that English in America is perpetually in danger or on the decline is in itself why...
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This article is pretty sweet. I’ve been meaning to write my own article about this subject. Expect it soon. One of my...
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Reading this article, I thought of an excellent book I read that talked about similar points—a book called Doing Our Own...
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