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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster.

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• ‟ Text messaging is just the most recent focus of people's anxiety; what people are really worried about is a new generation gaining control of what they see as their language.

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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 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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