LW Pestering me about Twitter

She stands there asking, Do you Twitter? Do you Facebook?
I answer no, but I blog.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

I just got a business communication filled with u for you. What's next? Resumes? It's high time to take our revenge on those whose instant messagings have wrought depredations on our lovely languages. Everything is shortened, homonymophied, abbreviated, uncapitalized. enuf alredy! if u wont spel rite i wnt ethr. Let letters become words. Let elisions become enlongenations. Let the phonetic substitutions begin!

Oscar Mike Golf this is fun! Uniform can't stop once Uniform get started. Where's my India phone? I've got to India Mike my Baker Foxtrot Foxtrot right away!

Arguing about Rolling Rs

I'm sitting here with Peter and we are arguing about rolling Rs. I say they do. He says they don't. I gave him the practice sentence: Rapido corren los carros del ferrocarril. Naturally applying all the appropriate rolls for the r-r rs.
He still doubts. Foolish boy.

From Speech Therapy--Or What?

I remember a sentence from my youth in the 60s. I had thought it was something my parents said for fun, like "How much wood would a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood." Now I'm not so sure. It may be something I had to say in speech therapy to correct my lisp, though my lisp was for R not for S. Here it is:

Theopold Theopolis thrust three thousand thorny thistles through the thick of his thumb.

It must be important. Why would I remember it this long if it wasn't. But I don't find any references to it on the Web. Is it possible that this piece of our culture has avoided rampant webification? Or maybe it was just something my parents made up. Is it possible?