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    John McWhorter

    John McWhorter

    272 songs
    Total 214 albums

    Myths, Lies, and Half-Truths of Language Usage

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    Alarm Over the Decay of English-:--
    Surprises in the Ancestry of Old English-:--
    Not Exactly Anglo-Saxon-:--
    Don’t Forget the Celtic Connection-:--
    From Insider Language to Lingua Franca-:--
    English as Easy German-:--
    The Viking Conquest of English-:--
    How the Words of Modern English Emerged-:--
    Black English — The Streamlining Continues-:--
    Honored Conceits of Blackboard Grammar-:--
    Pronoun Fashions Come and Go-:--
    Wrong Then, Proper Now — and Vice Versa-:--
    A Procession of Accidents and Fossils-:--
    The Pursuit of Logic in Language-:--
    Clarity as the Logic of Language-:--
    20th-Century Fashions From Strunk & White-:--
    The Kinds of Grammar You Don’t Hear About-:--
    Linguists Uncovering Grammar We All Use-:--
    Speech Versus Writing — Different Languages-:--
    Speechmaking — From Oratory to Plain Speaking-:--
    The Old and New Styles of Writing-:--
    Got Poetry? Language With Spice-:--
    Why Texting Is Misunderstood-:--
    The Living Past and Future of English-:--
    Story of Human Language Album Cover

    Story of Human Language

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    What Is Language?-:--
    When Language Began-:--
    How Language Changes — Sound Change-:--
    How Language Changes — Building New Material-:--
    How Language Changes — Meaning and Order-:--
    How Language Changes — Many Directions-:--
    How Language Changes — Modern English-:--
    Language Families — Indo-European-:--
    Language Families — Tracing Indo-European-:--
    Language Families — Diversity of Structures-:--
    Language Families — Clues to the Past-:--
    The Case Against the World’s First Language-:--
    The Case for the World’s First Language-:--
    Dialects — Subspecies of Species-:--
    Dialects — Where Do You Draw the Line?-:--
    Dialects — Two Tongues in One Mouth-:--
    Dialects — The Standard as Token of the Past-:--
    Dialects — Spoken Style, Written Style-:--
    Dialects — The Fallacy of Blackboard Grammar-:--
    Language Mixture — Words-:--
    Language Mixture — Grammar-:--
    Language Mixture — Language Areas-:--
    Language Develops Beyond the Call of Duty-:--
    Language Interrupted-:--
    A New Perspective on the Story of English-:--
    Does Culture Drive Language Change?-:--
    Language Starts Over — Pidgins-:--
    Language Starts Over — Creoles I-:--
    Language Starts Over — Creoles II-:--
    Language Starts Over — Signs of the New-:--
    Language Starts Over — The Creole Continuum-:--
    What Is Black English?-:--
    Language Death — The Problem-:--
    Language Death — Prognosis-:--
    Artificial Languages-:--
    Finale — Master Class-:--

    Lexicon Valley #109, "That's Not a Word, Is It?"

    2017
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    Lexicon Valley #109, "That's Not a Word, Is It?"29:48

    Lexicon Valley #86, "Your Brain on Profanity"

    2016
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    Lexicon Valley #86, "Your Brain on Profanity"-:--

    Lexicon Valley #108, "The Language of Female Friendships"

    2017
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    Lexicon Valley #108, "The Language of Female Friendships"36:13

    Lexicon Valley #110, "Mining Graffiti for Slang"

    2017
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    Lexicon Valley #110, "Mining Graffiti for Slang"32:09

    Lexicon Valley #111, "Is There a Jewish Way of Talking?"

    2017
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    Lexicon Valley #111, "Is There a Jewish Way of Talking?"38:33

    Lexicon Valley #112, "The Incredible Lightness of Being"

    2017
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    Lexicon Valley #112, "The Incredible Lightness of Being"29:32

    Lexicon Valley #113, "Why Do Languages Have Contractions?"

    2017
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    Lexicon Valley #113, "Why Do Languages Have Contractions?"36:20

    Lexicon Valley #114, "In the Negative"

    2017
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    Lexicon Valley #114, "In the Negative"32:19

    Lexicon Valley #115, "New Life for Dying Languages"

    2017
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    Lexicon Valley #115, "New Life for Dying Languages"37:33

    Lexicon Valley #116, "Did Cavebabies Say Mama and Papa?"

    2017
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    Lexicon Valley #116, "Did Cavebabies Say Mama and Papa?"32:08