Is the Internet destroying the English language?
Dave Snow: No.com. People still have to read and write. Sure, language is easily manipulated into fluid hybrid, but I’d hardly say that change is destruction. It’s just a variant of what you can find via other forms of communication. Several US states have adopted “three strikes and you’re out” laws, which basically mean that after you’re found guilty of three felonies, you’re imprisoned for life. How do you feel about that? Is it effective lawmaking, or needlessly harsh? Dave Snow: Such policies have been used before. Thatcherism took a “get tough on crime” approach to policing and it doesn’t seem to have worked. Australia has been heading down a similar path recently, too. I think that there needs to be a thorough overview of the way discretionary powers are used within the police force first, before you can commit to something so arbitrary. I don’t think that such policies should be put in place at the expense of other approaches to policing that can keep people out of prisons and a
