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Language Bias: The Last Back Door of Discrimination in America?

New Books in Education

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The Common Wisdom of Inspoken Language

People have been taught from a very early age thatthis is right and this is wrong. The basic rule about inspoken language is, if this is a usage the people use, that it's just used spontaneously, then it's correct, at's not wrong. Now, the written language is so different because it has a different it has to communicate information over time and space. So you couldn't write. If we couldn't read and write, we couldn't build helicopters. Without writtinyoukno azillion pages of instructions about how to do that.

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