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John McWhorter

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
385 total appearances

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Revisionist History
The Origin of โ€œYouโ€ โ€“ A Conversation with John McWhorter

It's completely out of control. That's right. And all that is is that you're being cheery and polite. Yeah. That was not the way we wrote emails 30 years ago or even 20. But now I'm doing the exclamation points because I'm thinking if I just have a period, it makes it look like I'm angry. And that's how punctuation changes.

Revisionist History
The Origin of โ€œYouโ€ โ€“ A Conversation with John McWhorter

I have my days, but I would disguise it by using a meaningless exclamation point. All right, one last one for the road. So it was, you just can't. It was, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then there was the, what was the first thing I said? And it is what it is. People have got to stop that. So I would have those three. And then maybe y'all.

Revisionist History
The Origin of โ€œYouโ€ โ€“ A Conversation with John McWhorter

I have my days, but I would disguise it by using a meaningless exclamation point. All right, one last one for the road. So it was, you just can't. It was, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then there was the, what was the first thing I said? And it is what it is. People have got to stop that. So I would have those three. And then maybe y'all.

Revisionist History
The Origin of โ€œYouโ€ โ€“ A Conversation with John McWhorter

And see, you can't say that. What they're really saying is stop, it's kind of like, yeah, it's stop talking about that. Like it is what it is, and therefore there's no point in dwelling on it, and now let's talk about RFK Jr., Or something. And what I wanted to talk about was the tangerine ice cream. So that's how that goes.

Revisionist History
The Origin of โ€œYouโ€ โ€“ A Conversation with John McWhorter

And see, you can't say that. What they're really saying is stop, it's kind of like, yeah, it's stop talking about that. Like it is what it is, and therefore there's no point in dwelling on it, and now let's talk about RFK Jr., Or something. And what I wanted to talk about was the tangerine ice cream. So that's how that goes.

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