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Almost everyone believes that at some level birthmothers make a choice to give their babies away. . . . Adoption is rarely about mothers' choices; it is, instead, about the abject choicelessness of some resourceless women.

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Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds - people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language.

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It took three years to put Shakespeare's words together, there were a lot of words to be studied and a lot of words to be sorted out, and it proved to be a major project.

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As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.

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Language changes and moves in a different direction evolving all the time. Where a lot of people see deterioration, I see expressive development

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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.

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Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.

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