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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