- Integrity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Language Quotes
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Loving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in ways I have celebrated widely. But we've fallen behind on savoring the formal layer of our language.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have been warning us that language was going to the dogs ever since Latin started turning into French. Yet the dogs in question never seem to emerge yelping on the horizon.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most languages spoken by a few thousand people are so complicated they make your head swim; a Siberian yak herder's language is much more complicated than a Manhattan bond trader's.
- Drops
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black English is simpler than standard English in some ways; for example, it often gets by with just 'be' and drops 'am,' 'is,' and 'are.' That's because black English arose when adult African slaves learned the language.
- Fast
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- Nov 07, 2020
Language changes very fast.
- Most Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'.
- Effect
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- Nov 07, 2020
The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cinema is a visual language, and you're always looking for visual metaphors for things. You know, if I was writing a play about Howard Hughes, I could have him give a monologue about how he's terrified to touch a doorknob. But on screen, you know, working with Marty Scorsese in 'The Aviator,' that became the series of images that told a story.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd read Shakespeare in school, translated into isiXhosa, and loved the stories, but I hadn't realised before I started reading the English text how powerful the language was - the great surging speeches Othello has.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shakespeare's words paint pictures in glorious colour in my language. They were written by a man whose use of words fits exactly into Xhosa.
- Nov 07, 2020