Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
Do you find it disturbing or reassuring to hear everyone from politicians to your teenage kids use similar casual language? Has the use of slang gotten out of hand? Where have America’s orators gone? Does any of this matter?
Guests
- John McWhorter Senior Fellow at The Manhattan Institute, Linguistic Professor at UC Berkeley, and author of "Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care"
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