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" People say that text messaging is a new language and that people are filling texts with abbreviations - but when you actually analyse it, you find they're not. "
David Crystal
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Language
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" Every usage, no matter how bizarre or nonstandard, fascinates me, as it tells me something about the way language is evolving. "
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" People are very ready to criticize other people's accents. There's no correlation between accents and intelligence or accents and criminality, but people do make judgments. "
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" You don't usually get a compound word where the first part is a slang thing and the second part is a rather ordinary or formal thing - they don't usually mix - but 'gobsmacked' is a perfect exception to that rule. "
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" In Cardiff, I've heard a number of accent mixes that weren't previously heard before such as Cardiff-Arabic and Cardiff-Hindi. This pattern is repeating itself in many urban communities across the U.K.; people are especially keen to develop a strong sense of local identity. "
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Sense
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" The one thing about internet language, people join it, and what quickly evolves is an 'internet dialect,' as it were. "
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People
Join
" 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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Internet
" 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. "
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Who
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" As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear. "
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You
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" Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices. "
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Reflect
People
" Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument. "
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Thinking
Argument
" There is no such thing as an ugly accent, like there's no such thing as an ugly flower. "
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Thing
Accent
Flower
" 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. "
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Short
Internet
Communication
" Of all the mediums that influence language, I think film is the one that has the most effect. Not so much from the point of view of pronunciation and grammar. I don't think we pick up very many sounds and grammatical instructions from the films we see - but the catchphrases. "
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See
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Language
" What turns teenagers on more than the Internet these days? If you can get a language out there, the youngsters are much more likely to think it's cool. "
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Language
Think
" 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. "
David Crystal
Story
Permanent
Left
" Online, you show how brilliant you are by manipulating the language of the Internet. "
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Show
Language
Internet
" 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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Focus
Ignore
Language
" At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects. "
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Kaleidoscope
Time
Language
" 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. "
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Devil
Thought
Technology
" 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. "
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Community
Language
Long
" English does have a larger vocabulary than other languages because of its history as the primary language of science and its global reach. "
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Reach
History
Other
" Languages like English, Spanish, and Chinese are healthy languages. They exist in spoken, written, and signed forms, and they're used by hundreds of millions of people all over the world. But most of the 6,000 or so of the world's languages aren't in such a healthy state. "
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Like
World
People
" It hasn't been a problem with Ben, I think we worked together very well, we don't have rows. "
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Think
Problem
Been
" One of the places the full stop is really being revised in a really fundamental way is on the Internet. You look at the Internet or any instant messaging exchange - anything that is a fast dialogue taking place. People simply do not put full stops in unless they want to make a point. "
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People
You
Look
" The ethos of 50 years ago was that there was one kind of English that was right and everything else was wrong; one kind of access that was right and everything else was inferior. Then nobody touched language for two generations. When it gradually came back in, we didn't want to go back to what we did in the 1950s. There's a new kind of ethos now. "
David Crystal
Back
Language
Nobody
" Over the last 50 years or so, we have seen an increasing cultural diversification across the country. Accents are a reflection of society, and as society changes, so accents change. "
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Society
Change
Changes
" When we look at the specific effect of the Internet on language, languages asking the question, 'Has English become a different language as a result of the Internet?' the answer has to be no. "
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Internet
Language
Look
" Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it. "
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Issues
Language
Up
" How do you spell the name of the Irish prime minister? It sounds like 'teeshuck', but we spell it 'taoiseach.' We respect foreign spellings these days - a sign of our more egalitarian times, perhaps. "
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Irish
Name
Respect
" 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. "
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Three
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Years