"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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Source : John H. McWhorter (2001). “The Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of "pure" Standard English”, p.62, Basic Books

John H. McWhorter

#Writing Quotes #Issues Quotes #Insecurity Quotes

“Death is supposed to be the great equalizer, but that's never true. Death is random, capricious, unconcerned, a flagrant player of favorites. It keeps its own counsel, so much the better to profoundly shock by its actions.”
“Over a long period of time, living as if you were someone else is no fun.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I am what you call a non-believer. I don't even want to say I'm an atheist because frankly I don't want to join their club either. But the point is, I am a fallen catholic, I'm not religious, and that's all well and good.”
“A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.”
“If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America.”
“It's interesting to help someone find their vocabulary. There would not have been a De Niro without a Scorsese.”
“Perhaps the singular positive of [Donald] Trump's desire to improve the deteriorating relations between the U.S. and Russia will lead to achieving progress toward a world free of nuclear weapons.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“We are responsible for the quality of our vision, we have a say in the shaping of our sensibility. In the many thousand daily choices we make, we create ourselves and the voice with which we speak and work.”

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