>informal text informal and by less educated people. obviously there will be big exceptions, but I would imagine the % of computer-indexed text (i.e. books and

>informal text informal and by less educated people. obviously there will be big exceptions, but I would imagine the % of computer-indexed text (i.e. books and newspapers) from between 1895 and 1995 that wasn't written by someone with a degree is not very high. similar to the way you can get a distorted view of the Romans (or nearly any literate historical society) because nearly (if not) all of their literature was written by the educated upper classes