Language Itself Changes Slowly But The Internet

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.

Language Has No Independent Existence Apart From The People Who Use It. It Is Not An End In Itself; It Is A Means To An End Of Understanding Who You Are And What Society Is Like.

Sending A Message On A Mobile Phone Is Not The Most Natural Of Ways To Communicate. The Keypad Isn't Linguistically Sensible.

Vocabulary Is A Matter Of Word-building As Well As Word-using.

A Feature Of English That Makes It Different Compared With All Other Languages Is Its Global Spread.