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

Swearing makes an excellent relief mechanism

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.

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.

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

Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using.

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