Benjamin Lee Whorf
September 02, 2010
Don't Believe the Hype About Aborigines, Yiddish, or Ebonics
LANGUAGE AS THOUGHT: WATCH OUT FOR THE HYPE READ MORE >>
September 02, 2010
Don't Believe the Hype About Aborigines, Yiddish, or Ebonics
LANGUAGE AS THOUGHT: WATCH OUT FOR THE HYPE READ MORE >>
June 21, 2010
Is English Special Because It's "Globish"?
Most of the mainline reviews of Robert McCrum’s Globish – of which there have been so many so fast that I am in awe of his publicity people -- are missing what is fundamentally wrong with the book. Herewith one linguist’s take on this peculiar book, within which all evaluators seem to perceive a certain fuzziness, but few are catching that it is based on an outright error of reasoning and analysis – as well as an infelicitous volume of downright flubs. READ MORE >>
