I love the term Language Behavior. I never knew the term until I was about 30. I had never really thought in terms of language having behavior. It's a personification, however, that has a lot of meaning. Language does behave a certain way because of all the patterns in it. Patterns show up in language in nearly every linguistic area. Grammatically, patterns fill the language books, such as the regularization of verbs. Prosodically, patterns fill our tones and melodies, such as the way questions are intoned. Semantically, patterns can be seen in ways that signal what a listener would expect if sentences are said a certain way, such as the use of a stock phrase, a dialectal phrase, or a borrowed phrase from another language. There are many patterns language fits into.
Facades are great because people use them to present what they want people to see. They can decorate them and make them beautiful to gaze at. Facades have something very different behind them than what they represent on the front of them. Movies use facades often. They can create, for example, a whole main street of a western town - a general store, a saloon, a hotel, a bank, a jail, a blacksmith shop, and a doctor's office. But if you were to go through the front door of these facades, you would see nothing of what you would expect. Go in the door to the jail, expecting to see a cell, and you see nothing but dirt. It's a facade. Go in the door to the general store, and you don't see rows of things to buy. You see dirt or mountains or desert or whatever is behind the facade. Go through any of the facade doors and you know that nothing is behind the front of the building. It's just a store front.
When I was growing up, I never heard of what is going to be happening tomorrow. The phenomenon had not been discovered yet. As a young adult, I heard of the discovery because NASA had begun watching the sun. Just 5 years ago, I had heard of this recently discovered happening and seen a few catastrophic scenarios of the sun's hyperactivity during one of its anniversaries in an 11-year activity cycle, but it was not within my daily experience. 
When a person learns the vocabulary of a language, (s)he learns that words fit into grammatical categories that start with a root and subsequently use suffixes to represent grammatical categories. These categories using the same root are often referred to as word families. An example of this is found in the root beau-. This root yields the verb beautify, the noun beauty, the adjective beautiful, and the adverb beautifully. A great number of words follow this model.
Words do funny things through history. In Rome, the people didn't mind talking about movement and maneuvering, using the word plicare. It was an action. The action form, verb form, was retained in the languages that derived from Latin after the Roman Empire died out. One version of the word, in French, had quite an influence in England where the American version of English derived. So, when the French during the early Middle Ages wanted to speak of movement and maneuvering, they didn't mind using their derived action word ployer (modern plier). The British turned the French word into two words because speakers of English dialects heard the word differently. In the north, Scotland, people used ploy as an action and combined it with prepositions em- and de-. The British in the south, London and Sussex, pronounced the word a little differently, ply. But, Londoners spoke the prestige version of English, so modern English adopted this form of the word when needing a word for maneuvering something if they meant to shape it. Those hillbilly Scots didn't know anything, of course. So, their usage of ploy was stripped of its action. It was left in the language, but only as a noun.
Years have different characters to them. 2010 was a year of taking three steps forward and two steps backward. There was a net gain perhaps, but at what cost! 2011 was a year of learning to be content with what life dealt out of its hand and trying to make sense of its events. I look at it and tell people it was all right, but there was something missing. 2012 is hidden right now. 
The day started beautifully. I went out to eat at a restaurant I had never been to before for breakfast. It was good, but it was overbilled in its recommendation to me. Next came working some on projects I had going. That went well enough, but not perfectly. For the day I was up on currency trading, but it was down for the week as a whole (but the month was in the positive column). On other projects, I made about 50% progress on them. Tonight I went to a movie. I watched the entire film - almost. With about 5 minutes to go, the picture disappeared from the screen. It was a mystery movie, so the last 5 minutes were important to the ending of the movie. The explanation by the manager was that the end had been erased from the memory chip. We all got free passes for that happening... but still. My aunt called out of the blue after I returned home. She wanted to know how my day went. I told her it was all right.
Today was a little cool to be outside. I was waiting on my daughter for several minutes while she had to make a brief stop in a shaded area. However, I had to move to the sun to wait on her. It was warm and made the whole environment around me comfortable. After those several minutes, I had to go back into the shade where it was cool and uncomfortable since I had not exactly dressed for the cool weather.
In the midst of busy-ness it's always proper to stop and award honor to whom honor is due. Such a beautiful person... for all kinds of reasons... making sure your son is a champion among peers and your daughter is a princess among all other daughters in the world... giving generously of your talents... sharing the smile that makes others' day... performing flawlessly and efficiently on a hectic, draining job... ensuring that your friends receive encouragement. Happy Birthday!!... to an effervescent, prescient, dazzling, and grand person!!!
Right now I am working on a project requiring a touch of statistical analysis - the standard deviation. It's all about the bell curve, norms, and the extremes that don't fit inside of norms. The extreme ends are graduated outside the norms, the standard. So the first gradation out is standard deviation 1. It's possible to have a number of standard deviations if the data set has a lot of numbers over a considerable spread. But, I am used to dealing with a smaller set of numbers in a distribution, thus one or two standard deviations to catch anomalies in the way people word their thoughts.
