We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.
Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster.
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 love you," I said in a low, intense voice. "I will always love you, no matter what happens now.
Ruth is so loyal and gentle-hearted, we cannot help loving her, as she stands with the reapers amid the waving corn. Her beautiful, unselfish spirit shines out like a bright star in the night of a dark and cruel age. Love like Ruth's, love which can rise above conflicting creeds and deep-seated racial prejudices, is hard to find in all the world.
And what this ECW is doing is educating you people once again that there IS wrestling, spelt W-R-E-S-T-L-I-N-G, out there.
Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I'll give you love unfolding.