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David Crystal Quotes

English - Educator | July 6, 1941 -

Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using.

Matter Vocabulary Well

The one thing about internet language, people join it, and what quickly evolves is an 'internet dialect,' as it were.

People Language Internet One Thing

There is no such thing as an ugly accent, like there's no such thing as an ugly flower.

Flower Ugly Like Accent Thing

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

Impact Language New Disaster Texting

It doesn't take a language long to disappear once the spirit to continue with it leaves its community. In fact, the speed of the decline has been one of the main findings of recent linguistic research.

Community Research Language Speed

English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background.

History Language Meeting Renaissance

The Internet has given us 10 or 15 new styles of communication: long messages like blogging, and then short messages like texting and tweeting. I see it all as part of an expanding array of linguistic possibilities.

Communication Internet Short Long Us

A community, once it realises that its language is in danger, can get its act together and introduce measures which can genuinely revitalise. You've seen it happen in Australia with several Aboriginal languages. And it's happening in other countries, too.

Community Together Language You Act

Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it.

Writing Language Up Interested About

Online, you show how brilliant you are by manipulating the language of the Internet.

Language Internet You Brilliant Show

The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint on our orthography.

People Story Unknown Permanent Left

Everybody wants to say who they are and where they're from. And the easiest and cheapest and most universal way of doing that is through their accent.

Doing Say Way Through Where Accent

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