Author Robert Lane Greene has a good interview with NPR’s Diane Rehm on his book, You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity. Many of his points are great, and it’s amusing that people have been complaining about the death of their language for centuries. Greene says slang will always be in a living language, and most of it will pass with times, but the idea that how we speak defines us to a large degree is critical. Perhaps that is another reason memorizing Scripture is vital to healthy living.