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The Importance of Empiricism in English

"It's just English. That's exactly what motivated the whole book is," he says. "I'm not a linguist. I may be an amateur linguist." He adds that most people don't notice something about English and then say, oh, that's an interesting quirk... It's hard to embrace new things when they are associated with groups or speakers we have differences with.

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