Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster. — David Crystal Copy Share Image
The ethos of 50 years ago was that there was one kind of English that was right and everything else was wrong;… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
The main effect of the Internet on language has been to increase the expressive richness of language, providing the language with a… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
People say that text messaging is a new language and that people are filling texts with abbreviations - but when you actually… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs in society; the… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
The Internet has given us 10 or 15 new styles of communication: long messages like blogging, and then short messages like texting… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
One of the lesser-known ways of making new words is to form a blend - and a blend is when you run… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
I don't have any particular desire to see words making a comeback. They are of their era, after all, and that is their identity… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
In effect we are, bending and breaking the rules of the language. And if someone were to ask why we do it, the answer… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
There's an old little jingle: 'The chief use of slang is to show that you're one of the gang.' What that means is that… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
The death of a language. The word has the same kind of reluctant resonance as it has when we talk about the death of… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
One of the places the full stop is really being revised in a really fundamental way is on the Internet. You look at the… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly. — David Crystal Copy Share Image
We are rearing a generation of kids who are more equitable and more understanding about the existence of language variety and why it is… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
Sending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate. The keypad isn't linguistically sensible. — David Crystal Copy Share Image
It took three years to put Shakespeare's words together, there were a lot of words to be studied and a lot of words to… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
“Here are three elements we often see in town names: If a town ends in “-by”, it was originally a farmstead or a small… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
There's nothing unusual about a single language dying. But what's going on today is extraordinary when we compare the situation to what has happened… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
