Our sense of what American English is has upended our....

“ Our sense of what American English is has upended our relationship to articulateness, our approach to writing, and how (and whether) we impart it to the young, our interest in poetry, and our conception of what it is, and even our response to music and how we judge it. ”

John McWhorter

From : Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should