Research Shows That Those Kids Who Text

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.

Word Books Traditionally Focus On Unusual And Quirky Items. They Tend To Ignore The Words That Provide The Skeleton Of The Language, Without Which It Would Fall Apart, Such As 'and' And 'what,' Or Words That Provide Structure To Our Conversation, Such As 'hello.

Language Has No Independent Existence Apart From The People Who Use It. It Is Not An End In Itself; It Is A Means To An End Of Understanding Who You Are And What Society Is Like.

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.

The Internet Is An Amazing Medium For Languages.