Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and why We Should, Like, Care by John McWhorter
Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and why We Should, Like, Care
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John McWhorter
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Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and why We Should, Like, Care

John McWhorter

276 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction music informative reflective slow-paced
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Once languages become written, they change. Only in writing does language develop the artfulness and richness that we associate with a Shakespeare, a Proust or a Whitman. Yet over the last forty years, the English-language has effectively gone int...

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