Susie Dent Quotes

Language changes very fast.

I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social.

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.

I laugh at stuff like Snapchat thinking it can change the world.

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.

Language is ever on the move, and most days, I check out the 'Urban Dictionary' where anyone can invent a new and useful word or phrase.

Shakespearean words, foreign words, slang and dialect and made-up phrases from kids on the street corner: English has room for them all. And writers - not just literary writers, but popular writers as well - breathe air into English and keep it lively by making it their own, not by adhering to some style manual that gets handed out to college Freshmen in a composition class.

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

We do live in this age of new media.

The expansive anarchy of the Internet continues to lull us into believing that, because we can see something, that something should be seen. Because we can say something, there is something that must be said.

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

I study the ways new media shapes people's perceptions of the world.

Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'likes' and view counts, social media have become the metier of choice for many people who might otherwise channel that energy into books, music or art - or even into their own Web ventures.

Caricatured as navel-gazers, Millennials are said to live for their 'likes' and status updates. But the young people I know often leverage social media in selfless ways.

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.

Living as we do in the age of Facebook, we shouldn't be surprised that some countries are starting to imagine themselves more as social networks than as a physical place.

The one thing about internet language, people join it, and what quickly evolves is an 'internet dialect,' as it were.

In the future, things will truncate! No, in the age of Twitter, we can't be upset when words become shorter.

I was on the Internet a lot during my teenage years, and I think the influence of that kind of textuality on my writing has been pretty significant.

Fans can have whatever mindset they want to have. But I don't want anything to creep into the culture of our program, because our players, they get stuff pushed at them - social media.

'We Are... ' is all obviously about social media and kind of the insecurities around social media and how people have become addicted to their phones and altered children's minds to what they need to look like, what they need to dress like.

The extraordinary thing about new words is that probably only about one per cent of them are new. Most are old words revived and adapted.

Especially when it comes to social and shopping, women rule the Internet.

The one thing - apart from assumptions about German - that I have to challenge frequently is people assuming that lexicographers are fierce protectors of the language when in fact our job is not to put a lid on it.

While social media can play an important role in spreading messages and democratizing access to ideas, hashtags without organization end up fizzling out.