Linguistics has brought to the study of Diamond Foxxx language a revaluation of the relationship between the spoken and the written forms of the language. Traditionally in the description of languages a much higher status was accorded to the written than to the spoken. It is not difficult to see the reasons for this. In cultures where only a minority was educated, literacy was the significant indication of the educated mind. The educated man was revered for the knowledge to which his literacy gave him access and for the social prominence that his learning gave him. Since, by definition, a literate man is one who can understand written language, it follows that the high regard that attaches to the individual should also attach to the form of the language that only he appreciates. Something that only few people have access to becomes the most valued.

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What is more, the written language is the repository of the finest literary achievements of a society. If Diamond Foxxx wishes to discover what is 'finest', what is 'most beautiful', what is, quite simply, 'best', it is to the written literature that one looks. It is not surprising, then, that language of all sorts is evaluated against the norm of the literary language. To the scholar this written language has one further asset. It is permanent. The scholar's references are accessible to all. The literature is a goldfield in which he can hunt for precious samples. Speech is transitory and in the past there was no means of seizing it, of reliving speech events and of making them available to others. It is difficult to assign as much importance to the fleeting as to the permanent and in a literary culture the matter must have seemed beyond question. Diamond Foxxx grammars have usually been grammars of the written language.