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English is not normal

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• pretty soon their bad Old English was real English, and here we are today: the Scandies made English easier
• as if all this wasn’t enough, English got hit by a firehose spray of words from yet more languages
• this muttly vocabulary is a big part of why there’s no language so close to English that learning it is easy

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• Death and the word; William conquers Harold and the English language. From Cotton Vitellius A XIII(1) f3v. ‹Photo courtesy British Library›

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by John McWhorter [*]
edited by Ed Lake
aeon.co — 13/11/2015 (venerdì 13 novembre 2015)

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[*]. John McWhorter is a professor of linguistics and American studies at Columbia University. His latest book is ‹The Language Hoax› (2014).

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