1、In his latest book, Doing Our Own Thing:The Degradation of language and Music and why we should like, care, John McWhorter, a linguist and controversialist of mixed liberal and conservative views, sees the triumph of 1960s counter-culture as responsible for the decline of formal English.
关心 John McWhorter----一个语言学家和具有自由与保守观点的辩论家,在他的最近一本书----《做自已的事情》中,提及语言与音乐的退化和我们为什么会喜欢,将60年代的相反文化作为正式英语衰退的原因。
2、As a linguist, he acknowledges that all varieties of human language, including non-standard ones like Black English, can be powerfully expressive-there exists no language or dialect in the world that cannot convey complex ideas
作为一个语言学家,他认为各种各样的人类语言,包括诸如黑人英语的非正式语言,都具有强有力的表达能力----世界上任何语言都可以表达复杂的想法。 |