Best quotes by David Crystal on Internet
Checkout quotes by David Crystal on Internet
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‟ The Internet has given us 10 or 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.
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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.
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‟ The main effect of the Internet on language has been to increase the expressive richness of language, providing the language with a new set of communicative dimensions that haven't existed in the past.
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‟ The one thing about internet language, people join it, and what quickly evolves is an 'internet dialect,' as it were.
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‟ When we look at the specific effect of the Internet on language, languages asking the question, 'Has English become a different language as a result of the Internet?' the answer has to be no.
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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.
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‟ 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.
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‟ The Internet offers endangered languages a chance to have a public voice in a way that would not have been possible before.
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‟ 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.
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‟ Online, you show how brilliant you are by manipulating the language of the Internet.
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‟ It's very difficult to find even one or two criteria that you will find in every Internet situation, and the reason is that the technology constrains language in individual ways.
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