"Text messaging is just the most recent focus of people's anxiety; what people are really worried about is a new generation gaining control of what they see as their language."

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Source : "Gr8 db8r takes on linguistic luddites" by John Crace, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2008.

David Crystal

#People Quotes #Focus Quotes #Anxiety Quotes

“I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I'm not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations.”
“Since geometry is co-eternal with the divine mind before the birth of things, God himself served as his own model in creating the world (for what is there in God which is not God?), and he with his own image reached down to humanity.”
“Modern reality TV sets up these competitive situations to show us real human nature.”
“Decision making can sometimes seem like inner civil war.”
“If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage?”
“I've said many times that I'd be thrilled to sell the airline to the employees and our guys said no, we'll take all the money, anyway.”
“We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.”
“I was a paper boy, beginning the summer between my fourth-grade and fifth-grade years.”

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