Eclecticism: Reflections on literature, writing and life

Eclecticism: Reflections on literature, writing and life

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The great American Language
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The great American Language

And the language barrier

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Terry Freedman
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When I was a young man I was typically disparaging about Americans and their mangling of our wonderful language, as I saw it. Why, I wondered, can’t they spell things properly? Why do they say “different than” rather than “different to”? Why do they say “I could care less” when, by any logic, it should be “I could not care l…

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