At time 14: John is worried that a reader who likes him would read a hypothetical McWhorter book through lens of race. I have “English- our bastard language” on my bookshelf. How many people bought that book? That would be a partial indicator of market size of audience sub-group that is interested in something other than race. I am still waiting for McWhorter to create a neuter pronoun for humans, a human version of “it”. My entire life, I have to write s/he or “the person” for context where my intent is to say “The human votes on election day.”
At time 14: John is worried that a reader who likes him would read a hypothetical McWhorter book through lens of race. I have “English- our bastard language” on my bookshelf. How many people bought that book? That would be a partial indicator of market size of audience sub-group that is interested in something other than race. I am still waiting for McWhorter to create a neuter pronoun for humans, a human version of “it”. My entire life, I have to write s/he or “the person” for context where my intent is to say “The human votes on election day.”