Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds - people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language.

Grammar is what gives sense to language .... sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And the business of the study of sentences is grammar.

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

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

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.

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.

Sending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate. The keypad isn't linguistically sensible.