但实际上，我们今天所知道的乐器是在20世纪20年代人们出于实用目的造出来、之后持续发展演变而成的。
But really the instrument we know today was the result of a continuing development that started for our practical purposes in the 1920s.
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。
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.
但他相信，具有实用价值的理论必须要能与实际的生活情况相结合。
But he believes that theory, to be of use, must keep its feet on the ground.
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