TUSCALOOSA, ALâConfirming decades of speculation concerning the potentially disruptive effects of runaway literacy, scientists at the University Of Alabama published a study Tuesday establishing a definite and potentially dangerous link between the practice of book learninâ and increased back talk. âAccording to our data, processing information from these highfalutinâ books has a direct correlation to getting a little too big for your britches and turning into a real sass-back,â said professor and co-author Jedediah Lee Lutz, noting that participants who gleaned moon-eyed ideas from reading were much more likely to get notions way above their raising. âThere appears to be a clear connection between book learninâ and acting like you plum donât got no horse sense.â Lutz recommended that concerned authority and parental figures simply smack them book talkinâs right out the offending partyâs fancy little mouths.