[lg policy] More on 'Ghetto Grammar'
Gareth Price
gareth.price at DUKE.EDU
Mon Aug 22 01:26:11 UTC 2011
The real-life dulcet tones of Lyndsay John from the London Evening
Standard (of 'Ghetto Grammar' fame) can be heard in this audio
interview with the BBC, along with one of his mentees (I won't get
into his use of that word here).
Favourite Freudian slip (3:40): 'I always try and teach the young
people I work with: Weapons! ... er ... words are the best weapons in
the arsenal of life"
The link is here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9568000/9568228.stm
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Dr. Gareth Price
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies
316 Languages Building, Box 90259
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708-0259
USA
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