She's right. Before we decry the denigration of the English language, we need to realize how many more people are actually using it now.

I enjoyed this strikingly exuberant More Intelligent Life piece on our collective increase in composition for its pleasantly declarative title ("We Are All Writers Now") as well as its undeniable cultural observations ("Go back 20, 30 years and you will find all of us doing more talking than writing. We rued literacy levels and worried over whether all this phone-yakking and television-watching spelled the end of writing"). We are all writers now. Or we will be.