The internet is an amazing medium for languages.

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.

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.

Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster.

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

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