I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.
Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it.
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.
As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.
Language changes and moves in a different direction evolving all the time. Where a lot of people see deterioration, I see expressive development
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.
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.
I don't treasure things much - just people. And pets.
I'm a blues guy and I listen to blues all the time and blues is timeless.
And being that happy makes me feel guilty. Because I shouldn't be. Not while my mum is feeling the way she is. How I can dare to be happy is beyond me, and I hate my guts for it.
If character is what you do when no one is watching, then sportsmanship is that conduct with everybody watching.