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Every language that English has come into contact with, it's pinched some of the words — thousands and thousands of words in many cases. And something like six-hundred languages have loaned or given words to English over the past 1,000 years.

David Crystal

There are several distinctive features of the way texts are written that combine to give the impression of novelty, but none of them is, in fact, linguistically novel. Many of them were being used in chatroom interactions that predated the arrival of mobile phones. Some can be found in pre-computer informal writing, dating back a hundred years or more.

David Crystal

The drive to be playful is there when we text, and it is hugely powerful. Within two or three years of the arrival of texting, it developed a ludic dimension. In short, it's fun.

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