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Andrian Kreye
American English was the liveliest language of modern times long before Bavarian schoolchildren insulted educational measures as an “alman move” or before words from the African languages and Arabic transformed the colloquial tone of French city dwellers into a wonderful mosaic. Nowhere else were there so many immigrant and subcultures that found their place at least in the arts and language. It wasn’t always an organic process. The writer William Melvin Kelley was one of the pioneers in the 1960s who promoted an opening of the language in literature that was far ahead of developments in society.