Can we have David Crystal on for a webchat?

[Rehabbibu]

Please? pedants, educationalists, people interested in children learning English etc etc would all like it, I think.

Oh that would be fab! I love his book Listen To Your Child.

I love David Crystal too!

What about David Cassidy?
Or David Soul?

What about all the other Davids?

(Can I have a quick precis of general theory?)

DAvid Essex
I vote for David Essex

Get out of here, Hully. You are sullying the thread with your David fetishes.

It's NOT a random David thread, you beasts. start your own.

David Koresh.

He was intrestin.

David Bowie.

Make him come as Ziggy and bring the Spiders.

Piss off, hully. I've been trying to get David Crytal on for a webchat for ages and you are Not Helping.

David...Steel

David....Owen

gosh there are a lot of Davids.

Why don't you email Dave Crystal on his website and invite him?

And where's my precis?

Yes please, linguistics nut here, I would like David Crystal please, thank you please, good afternoon

Yes, and he can settle some pedants' quibbles too!

Because I think it's MNHQ's party, and they do the inviting . What precis do you want? Not that I'm minded to help you, you thread-crashing termagant.

Ooh - I just pulled that word out of the ether - had to check that it didn't mean lorry or beetle.

But they might have forgotten him. Perhaps they don't like his beard?

Gotta go now (try not to cry), but want a precis of his overarching theoretical underpinnings.

He's a descriptive linguist, Hully. ds is now carefully putting his lunch in the bin, so I can do no better than that.

And besides, they let you on with your beard, so DC's should be a breeze.

Another vote for David Crystal.

Thanks for the suggestion. Anyone else agree?

I do.

Yes, David Crystal will be marvelously entertaining.
He is a wonderful man and I had the pleasure of having him as a lecturer many moons ago.

Oh Moondog, I wonder if we studied at the same department (he'd left by the time I got there though, boo)