The Shifting Meanings Of Our Evolving Modern Language (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

Linguist John McWhorter knows that language drives a lot of people crazy. The way it shifts and moves. The way it changes and defies old usage. Sticklers for grammar can feel assaulted, overwhelmed. McWhorter says relax. Get over it. We need to teach proper grammar and usage, he says, but we also need to let it go. Language never sits still, he says. And that’s like totally all right. Totes. And if that, like, bothers you, stand by. This hour On Point, linguist John McWhorter on how language moves. — Tom Ashbrook
Interview:
http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2016/09/13/english-evolution-language-linguist