The fourth presentation is about texting. The question asked is whether texting is harmful for our language or not. The speaker shows evidence, that this evolution of language is completely normal. And the only difference between nowadays and the past is, that nowadays we have a reason and ways to write similarly to the spoken language.
Specific phrases:
- The fact of the matter is...
- As we saw in the last...
- ... have actually shown ...
- If ... then logically it follows that ...
- Despite the fact, that ...
- In order to understand this, we have to ...
- ... is actually evidence for ...
- In closing ...
The most notable thing about the speaker is how calm he is and how clearly, he speaks. He uses the right amount of humour to engage the audience but not to seem silly. He knows when to skip boring phrases that everyone can read themselves and instead gives interesting examples.