article_snippet: The linguist, who has written more than 100 books on the English language, pointed out a new generation is 'constantly' reading and writing online. '
article_snippet: Professor Crystal's studies have found around 2,000 new words developed as a result of the digital age, including terms such as blog and twittersphere.
article_snippet: He said  additions have so far not had a major, or negative, impact on the English language, which has more than one million  words.
article_snippet: Professor Crystal also claimed that hashtags, used on Twitter, are simply a new method of managing and classifying information and were likely to stay.