The internet is an amazing medium for languages.

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.

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

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.

We created not only to exist but to fulfill a sacred mission.

Get Fired Up About Your Life Because If You Don't Who Will?

Pray devoutly but hammer stoutly.

The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.

The thing I love about television is that people watch you in their pajamas, and when they're eating dinner. You're part of the family.

You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.

I want to be efficient and effective in everything I do.

Your assumption, to be effective, cannot be a single isolated act, it must be a maintained attitude of the wish fulfilled.

Love means the art of being with others. Meditation means the art of being with yourself. Both are two aspects of the same coin.

Amy Poehler and I have been friends for so long, we're like Oprah and Gale. Only we're not denying anything.