Sure its a long way down, but I'm just following [url=http://www.radosh.net]Radosh[/url]Just trying to get in on the fun which started before this - but this is as far back as I am going to go. OK, one more step.
Actually, I think that’s the beginning. Whew. So here is the fun:
Pick up the nearest book.
Open it to page 23.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
Open it to page 23.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
“Oral language lives not to please language mavens or our sense of linguistic feng shui, but to communicate, to maintain social ties, to live life from mundane moment to moment.”
- John McWhorter, Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care
Not surprisingly, though I really like reading about linguistics, I am having trouble getting through this book.
Thanks to Daniel Radosh, TMFTML, Maud Newton, Return of the Reluctant, Caterina, David Chess and the originator, Long Story Short Pier.
