News Article: Living Language: Faculty Q&A With Linguist John McWhorter

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Living Language: Faculty Q&A With Linguist John McWhorter

John McWhorter may be best known for his magazine and newspaper writing about race, but the Philadelphia native is at heart a dyed-in-the-wool academic whose first inkling that he would spend his life studying languages came when he was still a preschooler and heard someone speaking a foreign language. “The idea that anybody could talk in more than one way was just mesmerizing,” he said.

Source: Living Language: Faculty Q&A With Linguist John McWhorter