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

Quotes by David Crystal

Speaking, writing, and signing are the three ways in which a language lives and breathes. They are the three mediums through which a language is passed on from one generation to the next.

Quotes by David Crystal

The ethos of 50 years ago was that there was one kind of English that was right and everything else was wrong; one kind of access that was right and everything else was inferior. Then nobody touched language for two...

Quotes by David Crystal

We are rearing a generation of kids who are more equitable and more understanding about the existence of language variety and why it is there.

Quotes by David Crystal

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.

Quotes by David Crystal

The main effect of the Internet on language has been to increase the expressive richness of language, providing the language with a new set of communicative dimensions that haven't existed in the past.

Quotes by David Crystal

Language itself changes slowly, but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.

Quotes by David Crystal

Online, you show how brilliant you are by manipulating the language of the Internet.

Quotes by David Crystal

People say that text messaging is a new language and that people are filling texts with abbreviations - but when you actually analyse it, you find they're not.

Quotes by David Crystal

Of all the mediums that influence language, I think film is the one that has the most effect. Not so much from the point of view of pronunciation and grammar. I don't think we pick up very many sounds and...

Quotes by David Crystal

English does have a larger vocabulary than other languages because of its history as the primary language of science and its global reach.

Quotes by David Crystal

Every usage, no matter how bizarre or nonstandard, fascinates me, as it tells me something about the way language is evolving.

Quotes by David Crystal

The death of a language. The word has the same kind of reluctant resonance as it has when we talk about the death of a person. And indeed, that's how it should be. For that's how it is. A language...

Quotes by David Crystal

It doesn't take a language long to disappear once the spirit to continue with it leaves its community. In fact, the speed of the decline has been one of the main findings of recent linguistic research.

Quotes by David Crystal

A community, once it realises that its language is in danger, can get its act together and introduce measures which can genuinely revitalise. You've seen it happen in Australia with several Aboriginal languages. And it's happening in other countries, too.

Quotes by David Crystal

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

Quotes by David Crystal

I do things on TV that are kitchen-sink realism, which is great, but I like the challenge of a completely new language and dramatic environment.

Quotes by David Denman

For me, if I'm going to do a play, I prefer to do something with language that I don't get to speak on TV.

Quotes by David Denman

It's unfortunate that a certain type of stripped-down classicism became the in-house architectural language for 20th-century fascism. Can an architectural language recover from such an association? Yes, I think it can, because in the end what you're talking about is...

Quotes by David Chipperfield

Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to.

Quotes by David Cronenberg

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these Language quotes explore?
This set looks at the limits of ordinary language for describing science, the case for more scientific language in public discourse, feeling outmatched by the sheer size of the English language, and wanting to master the technical language of a craft like directing. If you like exploring how words shape meaning, so is our Like collection.
Is there a quote about language struggling to describe science?
Yes — one quote says, "The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language."
Is there a quote calling for more scientific language in public life?
There is. One quote argues, "More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better." For more ideas along these lines, see our More collection.
Is there a quote about the English language being hard to keep up with?
Yes — one quote admits, "Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head." Shakespeare is famous for exploring love as much as language, and you can see more of that in our Love collection.
Is there a quote about wanting to master a craft's technical language?
Yes — one quote shares, "The producing thing has come quite naturally to me. I feel like for directing, I would like to be more technically-savvy. I want to have the language under my belt." For more reflections framed in first person, see our Me collection.

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