Academics Don't Normally Manage To

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.

Academics Don't Normally Manage To Alter People's Way Of Thinking Through Their Strength Of Argument.

Spellings Are Made By People. Dictionaries - Eventually - Reflect Popular Choices.

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.

Research Shows That Those Kids Who Text Frequently Are More Likely To Be The Most Literate And The Best Spellers, Because You Have To Know How To Manipulate Language.