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“Standard languages are inventions, most of them confined to a recent period in human history. They are codes that give access not to clear thinking and basic decency but to the structured parts of our lives such as job interviews, political speeches, literary essays, novels, and the like. They signal education and learning, but they are not the same thing as education and learning.”

Language Education Humility

Book:You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

Source: You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

“As economists like to say, the plural of "anecdote" is not "data.”

Evidence Generalizations Evidence Based Decision Making

Book:You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

Source: You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

“Too many people are too angry about language too much of the time. This time could be better spent listening, learning, and enjoying the vast variety of human language around them.”

Communication Graciousness

Book:You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

Source: You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

“Only 8000 different words appear in the Hebrew Bible, compared to the 20,000 or more that the average adult needs to know in most languages.”

Application Literalism Exposition

Book:You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

Source: You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity