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Robert Lane Greene, You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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