04.25.2023 - By Jeff Brown
If you’ve ever wondered if I geek out over anything besides books, today you get your answer.
It’s a related topic, as it involves a form of communication. Language.
Mind you, I was not a particularly strong language student in school (though I could diagram a sentence pretty well). But I scored a measly 405 on the language side of the SAT (okay, so I also got a 405 on the math half). Yep, a whopping 810. Yikes!
But my love for language, or at least learning about it as an adult, dates back at least 20 years when I read a book by John McWhorter called Doing Our Own Thing.
I remember thinking to myself at the time, “I don’t personally know a single other person who would enjoy this book the way I have.”