and thanked." that sounds about right to me. joining me now is john mcwhorter, professor of linguistics at columbia university. i'm so glad you're here. as i was watching this, i was thinking the whole time of what john mcwhorter was making of this. you're a linguist. you and i have had conversations about the linguistic bounty that is america and what we are watching in the courtroom over the last two days are two people from very different cultures, from very different linguistic backgrounds encountering each other while all of america watches. it's been an incredible thing to watch. >> it's been a little scary. sometimes it's like she's speaking hungarian and he's speaking cantonese. she's been articulate, just in a different kind of english than mainstream english. she's speaking black english. everything she says where you can see the twittersphere or people i know thinking she's making a grammatical mistake. if a martian came down and the