Thanks to Ben Jones for alerting me to David Crystal’s recent talk. Like you, I have many of his books on my shelf and find his insights into language, especially the English language, sage.
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"I made a rule for myself: I would not include anything that human beings had not already done in some other place or time, or for which the technology did not already exist." @MargaretAtwood on How She Came to Write The Handmaid's Tale lithub.com/margaret-… via @lithub
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Thanks so much for alerting me to this video by David Crystal. I will encourage the future teachers in my courses to listen to it. It was interesting to know that the supposed paragraph that had circulated in “textese” was a hoax. I wish David had mentioned where it originated. I’m quite curious.