1. People who say Nobody ain’t done nothin’ can’t think logically.

False97%

True3%Other

0%

TrueFalseOther

2. Swearing degrades a language.

False68%

Other0%

True32% True

FalseOther

3. Kids need to study for years in school to learn to speak their language properly.

Other0%

True9%

False91%

TrueFalseOther

4. Many animals have languages much like human languages.

Other0%

False47% True

53%

TrueFalseOther

5. Writing is more perfect than speech.

False56%

Other0%

True44%

TrueFalseOther

6. The more time parents spend teaching their children English, the better their children will speak.

True43%

Other3%

False54%

TrueFalseOther

7. You can almost always recognize African-Americans and Jewish people by the way they talk.

False74%

Other0%

True26%

TrueFalseOther

8. It’s me is bad English, and educated speakers ought to avoid it.

True15%

Other0%

False85%

TrueFalseOther

9. The English language traces its ancestry back to Latin.

False24%

Other0%

True76%

TrueFalseOther

10. Women generally talk more than men.

True59%

Other0%

False41%

TrueFalseOther

11. Some languages are primitive and have only a few words.

False62%

Other0%

True38% True

FalseOther

12. French is clearer and more logical than English or German.

False88%

Other0% True

12%

TrueFalseOther

13. People from the East Coast talk nasally.

Other0% True

24%

False76%

TrueFalseOther

14. Homosexuals speak with a lisp.

False92%

Other0% True

8%

TrueFalseOther

15. Some people can pick up a language in a couple of weeks.

True65%

Other0%

False35% True

FalseOther

16. It’s easier to learn Chinese if your ancestry is Chinese.

Other0%

True35%

False65%

TrueFalseOther

17. The only logical way to arrange words in a sentence is to start with the subject.

Other0% True

6%

False94%

TrueFalseOther

18. English is simpler than Latin or Greek.

Other0%

True15%

False85%

TrueFalseOther

19. Correct spelling preserves a language.

True53%

Other0%

False47% True

FalseOther

20. Eskimos have several dozen words for snow.

True68%

False32%

Other0%

TrueFalseOther

21. Nouns refer to persons, places, or things only.

Other0%

False62%

True38%

TrueFalseOther