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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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