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

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

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

The internet is an amazing medium for languages.

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.

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

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.