Black hole Quote by Richard Corliss

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

Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood.

— David Crystal

Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster.

— David Crystal

Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and…

— John H. McWhorter

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

I'm not one of those "omg texting kids rite bad" alarmists. I just think there's an interesting nexus where the Internet itself hastened language…

— Bill Walsh

Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication - it's like passing a note - and this means we should be very careful what…

— Lynne Truss

The misconceptions about grammar posted on the 'Net are at least as bad as the misconceptions about evolution, presumably because American public schools do…

— Raphael Carter

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

Words are useless, especially sentences.

— Madonna Ciccone

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

— Beryl Bainbridge

Texting isn't writing. It's not like letter writing. Texting is short scriptwriting. It's a collaborative soap opera where nothing happens.

— A. A. Gill