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