A review by shoelessmama
You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity by Robert Lane Greene

3.0

7/10. This would have been an 8/10 except that he lost me a bit in the middle. I agreed with the author on all of the stances I can think of before I picked this book up. What this book did for me, was to reaffirm my thoughts on language politically and historically but also to give me more concrete ideas backing up my beliefs. If I were in a conversation with someone about language before reading this book I would have had a harder time explaining my beliefs and backing them up. So, there's that. Hopefully the information sticks because it's doubtful I'll have that conversation in the next month.