Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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