Enjoy Quote by David Crystal

Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance about traditional - what a cranky…

— Richard Corliss

As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that it is…

— Lynne Truss

As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier.

— Alberto Manguel

Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all…

— Lynne Truss

I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for…

— Red Smith

I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively ... For words are merely…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I've been collecting linguistic oddities for years and years, ever since I was small. I've got loads of notebooks where I've jotted down things…

— Susie Dent

Research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to…

— David Crystal

If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the impulse to rebel. We're obliged…

— Joanna Scott

I'm not trying to be a poet on Twitter; I'm trying to be aware of the fact that a very simple sentence, well written,…

— Teju Cole

The more stringent the rules and the more limiting they are, the more the poet and writer is forced to resort to special techniques…

— Simin Behbahani

Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself, might convey his notions…

— Samuel Johnson