Linguist and Author
John McWhorter is a linguist and author specializing in creole languages and the history of language, emphasizing how languages evolve and affect communication.
Some emotions don't travel across languages — the Japanese komorebi, the Portuguese saudade, the German Weltschmerz — and something gets lost when you try to translate who you are into a language that wasn't built to hold it. George Lakoff, Lera Boroditsky, and John McWhorter examine what happens to the self when words run out.
