As I Get Older And I Get

In Effect We Are, Bending And Breaking The Rules Of The Language. And If Someone Were To Ask Why We Do It, The Answer Is Simply: For Fun

Swearing Makes An Excellent Relief Mechanism

Language Changes And Moves In A Different Direction Evolving All The Time. Where A Lot Of People See Deterioration, I See Expressive Development

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.

As I Get Older And I Get A Few More Years Experience I Become More Like Dad, You Know, King Lear.