"If you say,just because I'm using abbreviated forms, as I do,and change my punctuation, as I do,when I'm sending email, that it's affecting the rest of my written language, that,I'm afraid,simply doesn't happen,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

David Crystal is a British linguist who has written more than one hundred books, including the book "Language and the Internet."

VOA: special.2010.01.28

Of course,with signers,their first language has no written system at all, just hand gestures.

VOA: special.2011.04.13

But it was a hard struggle. Few of the books she needed were written in the Braille language that the blind could read by touching pages.

VOA: special.2011.08.07

The Tiwa language spoken by the Taos Indians has never been written.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

The people spoke a difficult language that had never been written down.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

It was written in the language of the people. The rulers of Britain at that time still spoke the Norman French they brought with them in ten sixty-six.

VOA: special.2011.01.12

It is written the way people speak, in a casual,relaxed language.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

The orthography is the written system and spelling of a language.

VOA: special.2011.04.13

And,for people that have no written history, language can be one of the ways that that history can be gotten at just by looking carefully at the different layers in the language."

VOA: special.2009.12.02

Director Roxana Silbert, "What's great about what we're doing is it allows them to come to it in their own terms and of course the thing that young people find most alienating about Shakespeare is the language, which feels like a different language to them and this isn't in anyway attempting to copy Shakespeare's language - it's written by young people in a language they would use."

VOA: standard.2010.05.07