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coffeesp00ns  ·  3546 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Barney Frank: My Life as a Gay Congressman

ever read "Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue" by John McWhorter? he's a prof at Columbia University. amazing read, and amazing to listen to him read his own audio book too. It talks about why english is the way it is (Useless "Do", etc) , and why it's so different from other germanic languages.





rob05c  ·  3546 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I haven't. Wishlisted.