It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbours 800 years ago. They are destroying it: pillaging our punctuation; savaging our… — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
The BBC has tended over the years to be broadly liberal as opposed to broadly conservative for all sorts of perfectly understandable reasons. The sort of people we've recruited - the best and the brightest - tended to come from… — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
Think about how much skateboarding opens your eyes to see the world differently. — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
“once computers gain good language understanding and we can speak to them, then reading and writing are going to seem cumbersome’.” — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
“Incidentally, it seems that ‘apartment’ has finally taken over from ‘flat’; I fancy they’ll soon have ‘closets’ rather than wardrobes. Anyway,” — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
The good television of today is probably better than the best television of the old days. The bad television of today is worse. It… — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
“The more clearly we are able to express ourselves, the less room there is for ambiguity. The more elaborate and the more precise our… — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
It is largely on television and radio that real probing of what politicians are up to has to happen. — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
It is no good saying we [journalists] must report only what is true because what is true cannot always be proven. — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
“what the pictures cannot do is express the complexity that might help us understand why these terrible things are happening. Only words can do… — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
“We stopped being perfect around the time when Eve picked the apple and started coming on to Adam. That” — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
“Language so remote from the way we speak in the real world prompts the question: what’s behind all that, then? Gushing vacuity addressed” — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
If the semicolon is one of the neglected children in the family of punctuation marks these days, told to stay in its room and… — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
“The measure of human success is no longer the life well lived but the lifestyle well lived.” — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
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