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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
You Language Internet Changes Those Slowly More Up Itself Quickly Process Them Notice
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
You People Language Understanding Society Independent Like Existence End Itself Apart Means Use Who
At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects. David Crystal
Time Language One Time Genres Styles Dialects Any Kaleidoscope
Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds - people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language. David Crystal
Technology People Language Thought Invention Devil Consequences Minds Would Arguing Put Since New Disastrous Because Printing Opinions Arrival Been False New Technology Ever
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
You Language Internet Think Teenagers Out More Days Likely Than Get Much Turns Youngsters Cool
People say that text messaging is a new language and that people are filling texts with abbreviations - but when you actually analyse it, you find they're not. David Crystal
You People Language Analyse Say Find People Say New Messaging Text Texts Filling Actually
We are rearing a generation of kids who are more equitable and more understanding about the existence of language variety and why it is there. David Crystal
Generation Language Understanding Kids About More Variety Equitable Existence Rearing Who Why
The one thing about internet language, people join it, and what quickly evolves is an 'internet dialect,' as it were. David Crystal
People Language Internet One Thing About Join Dialect Were Quickly The One Thing Thing
Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it. David Crystal
Writing Language About Around Issues Up Ends Anyone Interested Sociological
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.' David Crystal
Conversation Words Word Language Focus Fall Our Books Would Structure Tend Unusual Without Provide Items Quirky Which Skeleton Apart Hello Ignore
Increasingly, over the past ten years, I've come to take the view that a cultural perspective is intrinsic to the future of language teaching and learning, especially in the case of English, as it becomes increasingly global. David Crystal
Future Learning Perspective Language Past Increasingly Intrinsic Case Ten Ten Years Take Over Come Global Becomes Years Cultural View Teaching English
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
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
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
I do things on TV that are kitchen-sink realism, which is great, but I like the challenge of a completely new language and dramatic environment. David Denman
Great Language Challenge Dramatic TV Environment New Like Which Realism Things
For me, if I'm going to do a play, I prefer to do something with language that I don't get to speak on TV. David Denman
Me Speak Language TV Something Get Going Prefer Play
No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening. David Edward Jenkins
God Language Down Statement Defined About More Simply True Particular Pinned Than Any Literally Happening Ordinary Far Measured
When I went to Moscow, I felt I was relearning Swan Lake - which was written for the Bolshoi - and being immersed in a tradition and history I had never experienced. It took a while to adjust to living there and learning the language, but now I have lots of friends. I get the best of two completely different worlds. David Hallberg
Best History Learning Language Living Worlds Took Immersed Adjust Never Had Written Moscow Felt Tradition Lots Friends Get Being Different Experienced Lake Which While Swan Now Different Worlds Two
Smiles are the language of love. David Hare
Love Language Smiles
My new play 'Chinglish,' which will go to Broadway, is about a white American businessman who goes to a provincial capital in China, hoping to make a deal there. It's bilingual. And it's about trying to communicate across language and cultural barriers. David Henry Hwang
Communicate Language Will White Broadway Hoping About New Make Deal Go Cultural Provincial Trying American Goes Which China Capital Bilingual Across Who Businessman Barriers Play
I know Spanish pretty well. I'm half-Puerto Rican - my mom is from Puerto Rico - so I have a lot of family there, and my mom's first language is Spanish. But growing up in the States, and with my dad being from the States, I'm kind of just like this white kid. David Lambert
Mom Family Language First Half White States Kid Kind Pretty Like Know Well Lot Up Just Being Spanish Rican Rico Dad Growing Growing Up Puerto Puerto Rican Puerto Rico
I was obsessed with what a song was and what the possibilities of language in a song are. David Longstreth
Song Language Possibilities Obsessed
When you cut from a long shot to a close shot, you're doing it for a reason, or if you let something stay in long shot for a long take. On the short films, I was teaching myself how to express something personal cinematically, how to use the language of film the best I could. David Lowery
Best Myself You Language Long Films Stay Something Could Take Long Shot How Doing Close Personal Short Short Films Cut Shot Use Teaching Reason Express Film
Communication is always important, but it's a separate type of language in football. David Luiz
Communication Language Important Type Football Always Separate
In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously. David Mamet
Family Speak Language Miserable Our Solely Television Ourselves Ability Days Liked Prior Making While Evenings Based Away
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