As much as our English teachers would like us to follow the laws of grammar, language has a way of developing organically. Lane Greene joins us to talk about how language evolves despite all those rules, which he writes about in “Talk on the Wild Side: Why Language Can’t Be Tamed” (Economist Books).
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