David Crystal Quotes

It is the Internet that changes: the Internet is not just a language; it modifies relationships, the way we look at the world.

In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself.

Language changes very fast.

Language is always evolving. It's difficult to read Shakespeare now because language has shifted. Similarly, kids these days can get to the point really quick in about 140 characters or less because of these new tools.

Many Arabic/Islamic words have now entered the English dictionary, such as haj, hijab, Eid, etc., and I no longer need to put them in italics or explain them.

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

New words travel from one variety of English to another and at a rapidly increasing rate, thanks to the way language is exchanged today over e-mail, chat rooms, TV, etc.

English has always been a mongrel tongue, snapping up words from every continent its speakers encountered.

Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art.

Someday I will tell my grandchildren that I lived in the era when OK was abbreviated to K.

I definitely do see language serving its users, and when it no longer serves them we need to look for new words.

A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.

Language does not stand still. Surprisingly, despite this knowledge, most speakers are fearful of change.

The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. Someone the other day said, "It's the biggest thing since Gutenberg," and then someone else said "No, it's the biggest thing since the invention of writing."

Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law

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

I think our kids live an extraordinarily different life than what I lived growing up. Pretty much everything about their life is different than mine was.

Indian cinema is changing not because of outside pressure but because of inside pressure. Society is changing. Obviously, ideas change because of globalization, because of the huge middle class that is mostly first generation.

Since Graham Bell came up with telephony, it took 100 years for the way the technology has impacted our lives, the way we perceive the world.

The nation is trying to catch up with a rapidly changing world.

The Internet has heralded a revolution in our society. It has transformed the way we do business, entertain, communicate, and travel. In many ways, the change has been positive. The web has brought new freedoms, spurred economic growth, and extended the boundaries of knowledge.

Walter Benjamin used to think that languages expand their register thanks to translation, because translation forces ways of using words and structures that were alien to the original speaker of the target language.

From the start, English has happily absorbed words from every tongue it's encountered.

Society is changing constantly, and changing faster than we think.

In this post-industrial society, when we're moving away from what was the norm, we have to deal with what it has left in its wake in terms of the impact on people and the environment.