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

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.

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.

As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.

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

The internet is an amazing medium for languages.