David Crystal

Joke exchanges are carried on in deadly earnest, like a verbal duel-mouth-to-mouth combat. Bang, bang: you’re (linguistically) dead. ↗

— David Crystal

#jokes #language-play #humor

At the same time we overlap, because, I do linguistics, and Ben did a first degree in Linguistics at Lancaster University, so he knows some of my subject. ↗

— David Crystal

#ben #degree #did #first #i

As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear. ↗

— David Crystal

#dad #experience #few #get #i

It hasn't been a problem with Ben, I think we worked together very well, we don't have rows. ↗

— David Crystal

#ben #hasn #i #i think #problem

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. ↗

— David Crystal

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