(1) People who say Nobody ain' t done nothin ' aren't thinking logically.
(2) Swearing degrades a language.
(3) Many animals have languages much like human languages.
(4) Writing is more perfect than speech.
(5) The more time parents spend teaching their children English , the better their children will speak.
(6) You can almost always recognize someone 's background by the way he talks.
(7) The rules in grammar textbooks are guidelines for correct language use and should be followed whenever possible.
(8) Women tend to talk more than men.
(9) There are " primitive" languages that cannot express complex ideas effectively.
(10) People from the East Coast talk nasally.
(11) Some people can pick up a language in a couple of weeks.
(12) It 's easier to learn Chinese if your ancestry is Chinese.
(13) Native Americans all speak dialects of the same language.
(14) Every language has a way to mark verbs for the past tense.
(15) Correct spelling preserves a language.
(16) Nouns can be used to refer only to people , places , or things.