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

Language changes and moves in a different direction evolving all the time. Where a lot of people see deterioration, I see expressive development

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.

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

Research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language.

Grammar is what gives sense to language .... sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And the business of the study of sentences is grammar.

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

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

In effect we are, bending and breaking the rules of the language. And if someone were to ask why we do it, the answer is simply: for fun

Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices.

Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

Hope is full assurance of faith.

Nothing great was ever achieved without 100% dedication, discipline and determination.

Wise men say, only fools rush in. Wise men are so slow.

To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and is gone.

It's only that ye looked so beautiful, wi' the fire on your face, and your hair waving in the wind. I wanted to remember it.

A lot of money doesn't make anyone more often right. It just makes him harder to correct.

If Honda does not race, there is no Honda.

Plague might be a social incompetent, but he was unquestionably a genius.

There, I'm an artist. Thousands of women on ecstasy now want to have three-ways with me.