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Title: Myths, Lies, and Half-Truths of Language Usage
Author: The Great Courses, John McWhorter
Narrator: Professor John McWhorter
Format: Original Recording
Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-08-13
Publisher: The Great Courses
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 527 votes
Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences
Publisher's Summary:
Conventional wisdom suggests English is going to the dogs, that bad grammar, slang, and illogical constructions signal a decline in standards of usage - to say nothing of the corruption wrought by email and text messages.
But English is a complicated, marvelous language.