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

It's kind of a fun experience, though a little scary. I play a corpse and it's creepy to think of my family seeing me there in the morgue, dead.

Text messaging is just the most recent focus of people's anxiety; what people are really worried about is a new generation gaining control of what they see as their language.

Over the last 50 years or so, we have seen an increasing cultural diversification across the country. Accents are a reflection of society, and as society changes, so accents change.

Language itself changes slowly, but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.

Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs in society; the old language allows you to keep your sense of 'who you are.' It preserves your identity. With two languages, you have the best of both worlds.