David Crystal Quotes About Linguists
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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.
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Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood.
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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.
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The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint on our orthography.
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