Hilarious examples of awful language usage - Steven Pinker

Excerpted from his lecture at the Royal Institution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV5J6BfToSw Steven Pinker is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. He conducts research on language and cognition and has authored ten books, including: The Language Instinct How the Mind Works The Blank Slate The Stuff of Thought The Better Angels of Our Nature and most recently, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century. http://stevenpinker.com

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