Do you speak American?

Everyone should try to catch the new PBS special, "Do you speak American?," which premiered tonight. It totally fed my already-piqued interest in pursuing a MA in Linguistics several years down the line.

I called my father tonight to wish him a happy birthday (HAPPY %*TH, DAD!!) between the 2nd of 3 one-hour episodes, and discovered 15 minutes into the conversation that we had both been watching the same thing (he was startled to get my call RIGHT when the second episode ending). He's an English teacher in inner-city Kansas City, and obviously passed on his linguaphilia to me.



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