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" Where we have the space to carefully assemble and burnish our sentences, something like already or grocery store comes out; meanwhile, we spit out fuck when it’s time to run away from a lion. "

John McWhorter , Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever


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John McWhorter quote : Where we have the space to carefully assemble and burnish our sentences, something like already or grocery store comes out; meanwhile, we spit out fuck when it’s time to run away from a lion.