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David Crystal
David Crystal
English Educator
Born: Jul 6, 1941
Been English Internet Language People You
Related authors: Bill Nye Booker T. Washington Horace Mann John W. Gardner Maria Montessori Michael Pollan Michael Porter Timothy Leary
There's nothing unusual about a single language dying. But what's going on today is extraordinary when we compare the situation to what has happened in the past. We're seeing languages dying out on a massive scale. David Crystal
Today Language Single Past Situation Nothing Extraordinary Scale Out Seeing About Massive Unusual Going Dying Happened In The Past Languages Compare
One of the places the full stop is really being revised in a really fundamental way is on the Internet. You look at the Internet or any instant messaging exchange - anything that is a fast dialogue taking place. People simply do not put full stops in unless they want to make a point. David Crystal
You People Internet Unless Way Point Exchange Instant Put Simply Taking Look Make Messaging Dialogue Revised Any Stop Stops Being Want Anything Place Places Really Full Fundamental Fast
The ethos of 50 years ago was that there was one kind of English that was right and everything else was wrong; one kind of access that was right and everything else was inferior. Then nobody touched language for two generations. When it gradually came back in, we didn't want to go back to what we did in the 1950s. There's a new kind of ethos now. David Crystal
Language Else Back Everything Everything Else Kind Touched Wrong Generations Nobody New Access New Kind Came Go Years Years Ago Inferior Did Gradually Want Then Ethos English Now Right Two
Online, you show how brilliant you are by manipulating the language of the Internet. David Crystal
You Language Internet Brilliant Online How Manipulating Show
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
You Together Words Word Ways Run Blend New Make Making Form Two Third
Every usage, no matter how bizarre or nonstandard, fascinates me, as it tells me something about the way language is evolving. David Crystal
Me Matter Language Every Way Evolving Bizarre Tells About Something How Usage Fascinates
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
You Respect Spell Our Sign Minister More Prime Prime Minister Name Days Like Perhaps How Foreign Sounds Irish Times Egalitarian
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