Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes command everyday language
Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them. John McWhorter blackcalldialect Change image and share on social
Every third person in the world is a drama queen. And crying 'victim,' especially when you're not really a victim in any real way, feels good. It feels good to cry victim if you're not one. John McWhorter crydramafelt Change image and share on social
People banging away on their smartphones are fluently using a code separate from the one they use in actual writing, but a code it is, to which linguists are currently devoting articles. John McWhorter actualarticlebang Change image and share on social
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth. Antonin Artaud beggarchatterincomprehensible Change image and share on social
The only thing I command is respect. Kyrie Irving commandrespectthing Change image and share on social
The Internet has become an integral part of everyday life precisely because it has been an open-to-all land of opportunity where entrepreneurs, thinkers and innovators are free to try, fail and then try again. Ron Wyden entrepreneureverydayfail share on social
