94 Quotes by David Crystal

Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood.

Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it.

Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using.

It hasn't been a problem with Ben, I think we worked together very well, we don't have rows.

As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.

At the same time we overlap, because, I do linguistics, and Ben did a first degree in Linguistics at Lancaster University, so he knows some of my subject.

Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.

Several of us linguists at that time would record our own kids, just to get some data. There was some literature on it then, but no day-by-day, blow-by-blow examples. I recorded all my children over the years in some shape or form. It's what linguists do. You don't talk to a linguist without having what you say taken down and used in evidence against you at some point in time.

The internet is an amazing medium for languages,