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.
在他最新的著作《做我们自己的事》中阐述:退化的语言和音乐,以及为什么我们应该喜欢和关心,一个集语言学家和争论者们混合自由派与保守派的意见于一身的约翰.麦荷特认为,二十世纪六十年代反文化的成功对正式英语的滑坡负责任。
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,他承认,所有品种的人类语言,包括非标准的语言如黑色英语,可以有力地表达-不存在的语言或方言,但它们在世界上无法传达复杂的概念 。 |