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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In moving from written to spoken language, the greatest consequences for blind people may not be cognitive but cultural - a loss much harder to avoid.

从书面语言到口语的转变，盲人获得的最大益处是文化上的而非感知上的—这是一种更难避免的损失。

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