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John McwhorterThe Atlantic |
It involves a capital letter, and it might just resolve some significant confusion.
How a pidgin became a Creole
The story of how a gendered word became a universal pronoun says a lot about how language evolves.
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From pejoration to semantic broadening, the word has done it all.
The past was more racially fluid than we assume — and maybe even more than the current day.
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A modest plea for the return of language arts.
I used to think I knew him. History has proved me wrong.
People who are pinning all their hopes on one attribute are going to be disappointed — again.
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