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David Crystal Quotes

English - Educator | July 6, 1941 -

Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like.

People Society End Language You

Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices.

People Choices Reflect Made Popular

There's nothing unusual about a single language dying. But what's going on today is extraordinary when we compare the situation to what has happened in the past. We're seeing languages dying out on a massive scale.

Today Past Language Seeing Situation

Every usage, no matter how bizarre or nonstandard, fascinates me, as it tells me something about the way language is evolving.

Me Language Way Matter Something

It took three years to put Shakespeare's words together, there were a lot of words to be studied and a lot of words to be sorted out, and it proved to be a major project.

Together Words Three Project Out

It hasn't been a problem with Ben, I think we worked together very well, we don't have rows.

Together Think Problem Well Been

At the same time we overlap, because, I do linguistics, and Ben did a first degree in Linguistics at Lancaster University, so he knows some of my subject.

Time First Same Degree University

As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.

Experience King You Know Become Get

Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds - people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language.

Technology People Thought Language

Text messaging is just the most recent focus of people's anxiety; what people are really worried about is a new generation gaining control of what they see as their language.

Focus People Control Generation New

You don't talk to a linguist without having what you say taken down and used in evidence against you at some point in time.

Time You Down Say Talk Without

Increasingly, over the past ten years, I've come to take the view that a cultural perspective is intrinsic to the future of language teaching and learning, especially in the case of English, as it becomes increasingly global.

Learning Future Perspective Past

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