Originally published on CultureBot. “I’ve had a company for thirty years. It’s taken me time to research and articulate a specific language, in the old fashioned sense of building a language, that is Petronio technique. I took great pains to do that, because in the drift of post-modern thought, that kind of idea was disappearing and that’s something that I could do and wanted to do, and that I felt I should do. At the end of twenty-five years, I’ve got this amazing language.