Language Change Quotes

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Created on: 06-11-18 11:47

"The internet has given us 10-15 new styles of communication: long messages like blogging, and then short messages like texting and tweeting. I see it all as part of an expanding array of linguistic possibilities.

David Crystal- Technology

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Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries eventually reflect popular choices. And the Internet is allowing more people to influence spelling than ever before.

David Crystal- Technology and Dictionaries

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The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint on our orthography.

David Crystal- Story of English

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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- Words of their Era

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“Language change is not a disease, any more than adolescence, or autumn are illnesses.”

Jean Aitchison- Language Change Inevitability

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It's hard to see what the problem is. Language speakers and writers have always been inventive, and texting is just one further example of human creativity.

Jean Aitchison- Language Creativity and Texting

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It..is the latest manifestation of the human ability to be linguistically creative... In texting, we are seeing, in a small way, language in evolution

David Crystal- Texting

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Language is not, as we are led to suppose by the dictionary, the invention of academicians or philologists. Rather, it has been evolved through time...by peasants, by fishermen, by hunters, by riders

Jorge Luis Borges- Language Change

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Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking.

Lynne Truss- Proper Punctuation

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If you still persist in writing, "Good food at it's best", you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.

Lynne Truss- Prescriptivism

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They are destroying it: pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; ****** our vocabulary. And they must be stopped.

John Humphrys- Texters

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Card 2

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David Crystal- Technology and Dictionaries

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Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries eventually reflect popular choices. And the Internet is allowing more people to influence spelling than ever before.

Card 3

Front

David Crystal- Story of English

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Card 4

Front

David Crystal- Words of their Era

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Card 5

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Jean Aitchison- Language Change Inevitability

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