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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.