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When we look at the specific effect of the Internet on language, languages asking the question, 'Has English become a different language as a result of the Internet?' the answer has to be no.

~David Crystal

Topics: Answer Asking Become Different Effect English Internet Language Languages Look Question Result Specific

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What turns teenagers on more than the Internet these days? If you can get a language out there, the youngsters are much more likely to think it's cool.

~David Crystal

Topics: Cool Days Get Internet Language Likely More Much Out Teenagers Than Think Turns You Youngsters

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One of the lesser-known ways of making new words is to form a blend - and a blend is when you run two words together to make a third word.

~David Crystal

Topics: Blend Form Make Making New Run Third Together Two Ways Word Words You

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The death of a language. The word has the same kind of reluctant resonance as it has when we talk about the death of a person. And indeed, that's how it should be. For that's how it is. A language dies only when the last person who speaks it dies.

~David Crystal

Topics: About Death Dies How Indeed Kind Language Last Only Person Reluctant Resonance Same Should Speaks Talk Who Word

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The one thing about internet language, people join it, and what quickly evolves is an 'internet dialect,' as it were.

~David Crystal

Topics: About Dialect Internet Join Language One Thing People Quickly The One Thing Thing Were

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How do you spell the name of the Irish prime minister? It sounds like 'teeshuck', but we spell it 'taoiseach.' We respect foreign spellings these days - a sign of our more egalitarian times, perhaps.

~David Crystal

Topics: Days Egalitarian Foreign How Irish Like Minister More Name Our Perhaps Prime Prime Minister Respect Sign Sounds Spell Times You

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It's very difficult to find even one or two criteria that you will find in every Internet situation, and the reason is that the technology constrains language in individual ways.

~David Crystal

Topics: Criteria Difficult Even Every Find Individual Internet Language One Or Two Reason Situation Technology Two Very Ways Will You

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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.

~David Crystal

Topics: Lot Major Out Project Proved Put Shakespeare Sorted Studied Three Together Took Were Words Years

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It hasn't been a problem with Ben, I think we worked together very well, we don't have rows.

~David Crystal

Topics: Been Ben Problem Rows Think Together Very Well Worked I Think

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

~David Crystal

Topics: Become Dad Experience Few Get King Know Lear Like More Older Years You

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Educator

Born: Unknown

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