Quotes About Vocabulary

Younger people could dredge up an impressive number of dark words to express their pain. As writers got older and older, their negative emotion vocabulary diminished and their positive emotion word count skyrocketed. As

Over the years, I've noticed that most of my colleagues and friends have their own favorite but relatively obscure words that even they aren't familiar with. The

We tend to forget that words are, themselves, ideas. They might be called ideas in a state of suspended animation. When the words are mastered the ideas tend to come alive again.

In an astonishingly short time I reached the point where the language taught itself—where I learned to speak merely by speaking. This point is the place which students taught foreign languages in our schools and colleges find great difficulty in reaching. I think the main trouble is that they learn too much of a language at a time. A French child with a vocabulary of two hundred words can express more spoken ideas than a student of French can with a knowledge of two thousand.

Las palabras de etimología desconocida, también con ‹b›.

A esta norma escaparon algunas palabras, ya que su uso con ‹b› y ‹v› antietimológica estaba demasiado extendido, y se consideró como la forma correcta: ‹b› antietimológica: «abogado» (del latín advocatus), «abuelo» (del latín aviolus), «buitre» (del latín vulturem), etc. ‹v› antietimológica: «maravilla» (del latín mirabilia), etc.

I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet.

What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies... Fiction is democratic, it reasserts the authority of the single mind to make and remake the world.

D)on't seek great reviews from small minds. They have neither the character nor the vocabulary for them.

You say 'erbs, and we say herbs… because there's a fucking 'h' in it!

For me, as for many kids, words had a magical (and sometimes sexual) aura, and I would look up in my mother's medical dictionary words such as penis , intercourse , or homosexuality , exciting words no matter how dispiriting the definition, exciting just because they appeared in print.

Once you locked into language, all you could do was shuffle the greasy pack of a few thousand words that millions of people had used before.

If you've never studied German before or think you know nothing about it, you might be in for a little surprise. You already know many German words .And you have the advantage of being an English speaker,which means that your knowledge of that language will be a helpful tool for learning German efficiently and comfortably.

La noblesse est affaire de vocabulaire.

One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.

Un piccol numero di vocaboli era il materiale di tanti discorsi.

The women would not be looking at him like this if he were carrying lilies, reflects Jean-Paul. Flowers have there own silent vocabulary. There are blooms for love, for friendship, for sorrow, and for joy. He inspect the roses he is carrying. Long-stemmed and elegant, they have been grown, selected, arranged, and purchased for a single, unambiguous purpose: to seduce.

If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift' they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains' they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'

The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.

Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.

I had been writing poems and stories since I learned to make letters. I had placed poems in a hardcover anthology at the age of 6. And I knew more big words than anyone else in the 10th grade.

There's always a better word than a swear word.

I can swear like a fishwife.

I swear like a trucker when I'm excited.