John McWhorter
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You cannot walk ol across the stage.
It's long dead.
Only some ancient Germanic person would have been able to use it.
So it's dead.
Now, the analogy to this, I think, with DNA is junk DNA.
Is it true that there is DNA dragged along like that that used to mean something but didn't?
Or is that analogy off?
Yes, it would.
But these genes can be turned back.
I just thought of an example.
This truly is spontaneous, and that's not my usual.
Oh, wordle.
And so that's not a word, but now it is.
We're reusing that suffix.
And so it's a cute little wordy thing.
And so you can kind of bring it alive.
And maybe there'll be other things ending in O nowadays, such as your tax assessmental or something like that.
What's hardle?
It's hardler than workable.
Yes, yes.