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

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

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.

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

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

Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices.

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.