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It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbours 800 years ago. They are destroying it: pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary. And they must be stopped.
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Charles Babbage
John Humphrys
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Born:
August 17, 1943
(age 81)
Bio:
Desmond John Humphrys is an award-winning Welsh broadcaster.
Known for:
In God We Doubt (2007)
Lost for Words (2004)
Beyond Words (2006)
The Great Food Gamble (2001)
Devil's advocate (1999)
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