Monday, March 28, 2011

How Words Weaken Over Time

John McWhorter isn't concerned about increasing profanity in pop music: Language is all about creeping numbness, jokes wearing thin, feeling devolving into gesture. Terrible once meant truly horrific. The will we use to mark the future once meant that you...


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