Swearing Makes An Excellent Relief Mechanism

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

It Took Three Years To Put Shakespeare's Words Together, There Were A Lot Of Words To Be Studied And A Lot Of Words To Be Sorted Out, And It Proved To Be A Major Project.

Vocabulary Is A Matter Of Word-building As Well As Word-using.

Grammar Is What Gives Sense To Language .... Sentences Make Words Yield Up Their Meaning. Sentences Actively Create Sense In Language. And The Business Of The Study Of Sentences Is Grammar.

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.