The internet is an amazing medium for languages.

It took three years to put Shakespeare's words together, there were a lot of words to be studied and a lot of words to be sorted out, and it proved to be a major project.

Text messaging is just the most recent focus of people's anxiety; what people are really worried about is a new generation gaining control of what they see as their language.

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

Word books traditionally focus on unusual and quirky items. They tend to ignore the words that provide the skeleton of the language, without which it would fall apart, such as 'and' and 'what,' or words that provide structure to our conversation, such as 'hello.

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

In effect we are, bending and breaking the rules of the language. And if someone were to ask why we do it, the answer is simply: for fun