The Linguist Who Helps Police Catch Child Predators

To pose as kids, British cops are learning how to talk like them online

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At a digital-forensics conference in 2011, British police asked Tim Grant if he could help undercover agents pose as young girls online. Grant, the director of Aston University’s Center for Forensic Linguistics, had just given a talk on how to identify the…