David Crystal Quotes

• Language changes and moves in a different direction evolving all the time. Where a lot of people see deterioration, I see expressive development

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  Moving, People, Different

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• Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.

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  Language, Internet, Process

  "How the internet is changing language" by Zoe Kleinman, www.bbc.com. August 16, 2010.

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• 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.

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  Mean, Independent, People

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• At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects.

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  Style, Dialect, Kaleidoscope

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• A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.

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  Different, Language, Spread

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• Research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language.

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  Kids, Research, Language

  "Gr8 db8r takes on linguistic luddites" by John Crace, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2008.

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• 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.

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  Latin, Greek, Vacuums

  "From 'App' To 'Tea': English Examined In '100 Words'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. May 25, 2012.

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• In effect we are, bending and breaking the rules of the language. And if someone were to ask why we do it, the answer is simply: for fun

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  Fun, Bending, Answers

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• Desde la llegada de la imprenta -que se creía un invento del diablo porque introducía opiniones falsas en la mente de la gente- se ha venido argumentando que la nueva tecnología tendría consecuencias desastrosas para el lenguaje.

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  Technology, People, Mind

  "2b or not 2b?" by David Crystal, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

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

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  Needs, Enjoy, Understood

  "2b or not 2b?" by David Crystal, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

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• The internet is an amazing medium for languages.

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  Language, Internet, Mediums

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

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  People, Choices, Made

  "David Crystal: the story of English spelling" by David Crystal, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2012.

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• Swearing makes an excellent relief mechanism

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  Relief, Excellent, Swearing

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• Grammar is what gives sense to language .... sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And the business of the study of sentences is grammar.

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  Reading, Yield, Giving

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• 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.

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  People, Focus, Anxiety

  "Gr8 db8r takes on linguistic luddites" by John Crace, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2008.

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• El vocabulario es una cuestión tanto de construcción como de uso de palabras.

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  Vocabulary, Matter, Building

  "The History Of 7 Bizarre English Words" by David Crystal, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2012.

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• Los mensajes de texto han añadido una nueva dimensión al uso de la lengua, pero su impacto a largo plazo es insignificante. No es un desastre.

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  Impact, Long, Use

  "2b or not 2b?" by David Crystal, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

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• I believe that any form of writing exercise is good for you. I also believe that any form of tuition which helps develop your awareness of the different properties, styles, and effects of writing is good for you. It helps you become a better reader, more sensitive to nuance, and a better writer, more sensitive to audience. Texting language is no different from other innovative forms of written expression that have emerged in the past. It is a type of language whose communicative strengths and weaknesses need to be appreciated.

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  Believe, Writing, Exercise

  David Crystal (2009). “List of cartoons ;The Hype About Texting ;How Weird is Texting? ;What is Distinctive About it? ;Why do They do it? ;Who Texts? ;What do They Text About? ;How do Other Languages do it? ;Why all the Fuss? ;Glossary ;Appendix ;Index”, p.158, Oxford University Press

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

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  Writing, Issues, Language

  "Watch what you're saying!: Linguist David Crystal on Twitter, texting and our native tongue" by Joy Lo Dico, www.independent.co.uk. March 14, 2010.

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• 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.

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  People, Stories, Well Known

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• Sending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate. The keypad isn't linguistically sensible.

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  Phones, Way, Messages

  "2b or not 2b?" by David Crystal, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

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• 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.

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  Taken, Down And, Used

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• Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.

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  Pensamiento, Gente, Camino

  "Gr8 db8r takes on linguistic luddites" by John Crace, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2008.

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• En aquella época, varios lingüistas grabábamos a nuestros propios hijos para obtener datos. Entonces había algo de literatura al respecto, pero no ejemplos día a día, golpe a golpe. Yo grabé a todos mis hijos a lo largo de los años de una forma u otra. Es lo que hacen los lingüistas. No hablas con un lingüista sin que te tome nota de lo que dices y lo utilice como prueba en tu contra en algún momento.

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  Children, Taken, Kids

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• Word books traditionally focus on unusual and quirky items. They tend to ignore the words that provide the skeleton of the language, without which it would fall apart, such as 'and' and 'what,' or words that provide structure to our conversation, such as 'hello.

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  Book, Fall, Skeletons

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