Quotes by David Crystal

David Crystal

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

Enjoy

Needs

Understood

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

Issues

Language

Writing

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

Dad

Kings

Years

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

Dialect

Kaleidoscope

Style

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.

Greek

Latin

Vacuums

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.

Mind

People

Technology

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.

Believe

Exercise

Writing

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

Answers

Bending

Fun

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.

Three

Together

Years

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

Different

Moving

People

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Answers

Anxiety

Believe

Bending

Book

Children

Choices

Dad

Dialect

Different

Enjoy

Excellent

Exercise

Fall

Focus

Fun

Greek

Impact

Independent

Internet

Issues

Kaleidoscope

Kids

Kings

Language

Latin

Long

Made

Mean

Mediums

Mind

Moving

Needs

People

Process

Relief

Research

Skeletons

Style

Swearing

Taken

Technology

Three

Together

Understood

Use

Vacuums

Writing

Years

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Quotes by David Crystal

David Crystal

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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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