Swearing Makes An Excellent Relief Mechanism

As I Get Older And I Get A Few More Years Experience I Become More Like Dad, You Know, King Lear.

Language Changes And Moves In A Different Direction Evolving All The Time. Where A Lot Of People See Deterioration, I See Expressive Development

Several Of Us Linguists At That Time Would Record Our Own Kids, Just To Get Some Data. There Was Some Literature On It Then, But No Day-by-day, Blow-by-blow Examples. I Recorded All My Children Over The Years In Some Shape Or Form. It's What Linguists Do. You Don't Talk To A Linguist Without Having What You Say Taken Down And Used In Evidence Against You At Some Point In Time.

I Believe That Any Form Of Writing Exercise Is Good For You. I Also Believe That Any Form Of Tuition Which Helps Develop Your Awareness Of The Different Properties, Styles, And Effects Of Writing Is Good For You. It Helps You Become A Better Reader, More Sensitive To Nuance, And A Better Writer, More Sensitive To Audience. Texting Language Is No Different From Other Innovative Forms Of Written Expression That Have Emerged In The Past. It Is A Type Of Language Whose Communicative Strengths And Weaknesses Need To Be Appreciated.

At Any One Time Language Is A Kaleidoscope Of Styles, Genres And Dialects.