The ethos of 50 years ago was that there was one kind of English that was right and everything else was wrong;… — David Crystal Everything 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 Increase Copy Share Image
Text messaging is just the most recent focus of people's anxiety; what people are really worried about is a new generation gaining… — David Crystal Anxiety Copy Share Image
Languages like English, Spanish, and Chinese are healthy languages. They exist in spoken, written, and signed forms, and they're used by hundreds… — David Crystal Exist 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 Find Copy Share Image
Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it. — David Crystal About Copy Share Image
Speaking, writing, and signing are the three ways in which a language lives and breathes. They are the three mediums through which… — David Crystal Generation Copy Share Image
Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a… — David Crystal End Copy Share Image
At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects. — David Crystal Dialect Copy Share Image
The one thing about internet language, people join it, and what quickly evolves is an 'internet dialect,' as it were. — David Crystal About Copy Share Image
Increasingly, over the past ten years, I've come to take the view that a cultural perspective is intrinsic to the future of… — David Crystal Education Copy Share Image
The Internet offers endangered languages a chance to have a public voice in a way that would not have been possible before. — David Crystal Chance Copy Share Image
People are very ready to criticize other people's accents. There's no correlation between accents and intelligence or accents and criminality, but people… — David Crystal Between Copy Share Image
At the same time we overlap, because, I do linguistics, and Ben did a first degree in Linguistics at Lancaster University, so… — David Crystal He 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 Best Copy Share Image
“People sometimes say: 'A picture is worth a thousand words.' That's true. But language is never far away. To talk about the… — David Crystal Language 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 Communication Copy Share Image
Language changes and moves in a different direction evolving all the time. Where a lot of people see deterioration, I see expressive… — David Crystal Change Copy Share Image
It hasn't been a problem with Ben, I think we worked together very well, we don't have rows. — David Crystal I think Copy Share Image
Online, you show how brilliant you are by manipulating the language of the Internet. — David Crystal Brilliant 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 Arguing Copy Share Image
You don't talk to a linguist without having what you say taken down and used in evidence against you at some point… — David Crystal Against Copy Share Image
“It’s often thought that the only function of pronunciation is to facilitate intelligibility; but it is also there to express personal or… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
In Cardiff, I've heard a number of accent mixes that weren't previously heard before such as Cardiff-Arabic and Cardiff-Hindi. This pattern is… — David Crystal Identity Copy Share Image
