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Language itself changes slowly, but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.

~David Crystal

Topics: Changes Internet Itself Language More Notice Process Quickly Slowly Them Those Up You

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Enshrined in a language is the whole of a community's history and a large part of its cultural identity. The world is a mosaic of visions. To lose even one piece of this mosaic is a loss for all of us.

~David Crystal

Topics: Community Cultural Even History Identity Language Large Large Part Lose Loss Mosaic Part Piece Us Visions Whole World

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I don't have any particular desire to see words making a comeback. They are of their era, after all, and that is their identity - they form part of the linguistic color of a period.

~David Crystal

Topics: After Any Color Comeback Desire Era Form Identity Linguistic Making Part Particular Period See Words

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Everybody wants to say who they are and where they're from. And the easiest and cheapest and most universal way of doing that is through their accent.

~David Crystal

Topics: Accent Cheapest Doing Easiest Everybody Most Say Through Universal Wants Way Where Who

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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.

~David Crystal

Topics: Background Because Been Cleaner English French Greek Hebrew History Language Latin Meeting Renaissance Romans Then Up Vacuum

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A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.

~David Crystal

Topics: Compared Different English Feature Global Languages Makes Other Spread

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Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood.

~David Crystal

Topics: Also Although Breaking Enjoy Know Linguistic Many Need Rules Understood

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Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like.

~David Crystal

Topics: Apart End Existence Independent Itself Language Like Means People Society Understanding Use Who You

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

~David Crystal

Topics: Any Dialects Genres Kaleidoscope Language One Time Styles Time

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Speaking, writing, and signing are the three ways in which a language lives and breathes. They are the three mediums through which a language is passed on from one generation to the next.

~David Crystal

Topics: Breathes Generation Language Lives Mediums Next Passed Signing Speaking Three Through Ways Which Writing

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Educator

Born: Unknown

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