It's quite possible I'm behind the times. not because modern linguists are so foolish as to base theory on written language That was actually what I was tryin

It's quite possible I'm behind the times. not because modern linguists are so foolish as to base theory on written language That was actually what I was trying to get at. While there are clearly some rules we follow when speaking, they are much more open than those governing our writing. It's odd, though, or at least counterintuitive, that our comprehensive of these less-structured spoken communications is higher than that of more-structured written ones.