I’ve just read a deeply fascinating and provocative book that affirms something I’ve been trying to articulate for three decades! So, join me today as I explore David Crystal’s The Fight For English and discover what the glorious anarchy of language has to teach us about the beautiful spontaneous order that defines our daily existence.
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SHOW NOTES:
The Fight For English by David Crystal
Daniel Defoe’s “On Academies”
David Crystal Lecture – Cambridge University Press
Quote Origin: “This Is the Sort of Nonsense Up With Which I Will Not Put”
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Order without intent: How spontaneous order built our world.
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