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.

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.

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.

The internet is an amazing medium for languages.

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

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

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.