Author: David Crystal

Quotes

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.

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.

- David Crystal

People are very ready to criticize other people's accents. There's no correlation between accents and intelligence or accents and criminality, but people do make judgments.

People are very ready to criticize other people's accents. There's no correlation between accents and intelligence or accents and criminality, but people do make judgments.

- David Crystal

At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects.

At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects.

- David Crystal

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

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

- David Crystal

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