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

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.

In effect we are, bending and breaking the rules of the language. And if someone were to ask why we do it, the answer is simply: for fun

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

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.

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.