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• Texting is very loose in its structure. No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts, but then again, do…
• Racism is not dead. Definitely, there are these biases.
• The only way that residual racist feelings could affect legislation, in my opinion, is through a lack of priorities, from not doing…
• Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.
• Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And…
• The contribution of West African languages to Ebonics is absolutely infinitesimal. What it actually is is a very interesting hybrid of regional…
• Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk.
• People banging away on their smartphones are fluently using a code separate from the one they use in actual writing, but a…
• People have been warning us that language was going to the dogs ever since Latin started turning into French. Yet the dogs…
• People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient…
• As a linguist, I see the arbitrariness of strictures editors force on me as a writer.

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