McWhorter acknowledges that formal language is not strictly necessary, and proposes no radical education reforms—he is really grieving over the loss of something beautiful more than useful.

McWhorter 承认正式的语言并不是绝对必要的，也没有提出任何激进的教育改革——他实际上是在为失去一些美丽但相对不实用的东西而悲伤。

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It's conventional—that is to say, the language in the public sphere belongs to all of us, and there's perhaps a certain sort of romantic loss in that.

这是常见的——也就是说，公共领域的语言属于我们所有人，也许那中间少了一些浪漫的意味。

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Professor King says loss of culture, land and language all play a part in poor health.

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