Some language in the news stuff about the use of the full-stop in messaging. Note the framing of this from The Sun and Mail 🙄
Mail (second part of stand first)
I'll add more about this today but I think it's a clear example of how stories about language change are filtered through whatever distorting lens a newspaper's agenda dictates (today it's Gen Z snowflakes, yesterday it was texting teens, 40 years ago it was valley girls).
I've not linked the articles here but you can find them easily enough. They're prime AQA paper 2 language discourses material.
But also, if you teach KS3 and GCSE students too, this is quite a good way into some accessible language study and textual analysis.
And here's the linguist quoted in all these stories ( @lauren_bliksem - hi!) reporting on the charming response she received from one delightful reader: https://twitter.com/lauren_bliksem/status/1297810449086517248?s=20
And the only way to round this thread off is by posting this final message. I've checked the account so you don't have to and no, it's not ironic... 🤦🏼‍♂️
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