M. Patrick Mabry Jr
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“Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and distracts us from attending to genuine issues of linguistic style in writing.”
― Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of "Pure" Standard English
― Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of "Pure" Standard English
“I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudoscience and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive. Where have we heard it before? Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self-esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us - then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls.
The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“An educator should consider that he has failed in his job if he has not succeeded in instilling some trace of a divine dissatisfaction with our miserable social environment. ”
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