linguistlaura

Hooray! Another article about how 'textspeak' is bad for kids is out! (Daily Mail link, so don't click it – you can get the ide...

The other day, I was having a conversation with someone over social media. Bear with me, because I'm about to stray into conversation an...

I wrote this post and then didn't post it on the day GCSE results came out, a couple of weeks ago. Here, have it now. Lembit Opik was ...

My brother-in-law (sort of - my partner's brother) sent me a text recently that included the name of a type of a squeezy cheese that com...

I'm having some trouble with my mobile phone tariff at the moment, and I rang up the other day to ask how it's going. The woman I sp...