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To: tejek who wrote (656976)	5/29/2012 1:07:01 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 1574854

>> I am not quite sure what you mean. I'm not surprised. You're not exactly very well-informed. youtube.com Hunter called the AP's version "inherently racist," sparring with New Republic contributing editor and noted linguistics expert John McWhorter, who argued the g-less version "is actually the correct one," noting that the president's victory in the 2008 election was due, in part, to how effortlessly "he can switch into that [black] dialect." Whatever the reason, Hunter found it offensive. "I teach a journalism class, and I tell my students to fix people's grammar, because you don't want them to sound ignorant," she said. "For them to do that, it's code, and I don't like it."

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