Quotes About Vocabulary

Another reason that shame is so difficult to talk about is vocabulary. We often use the terms embarrassment, guilt, humiliation, and shame interchangeably, when in reality these experiences are very different in terms of biology, biography, behavior, and self-talk, and they lead to radically different outcomes.

Where shall we look for standard English but to the words of a standard man?

We get the language with which to describe our various lives out of a common mint. (Letter, April 26, 1857, to B.B. Wiley)

There were lots of words which had fallen out of my vocabulary, living abroad so long.

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.

English may be the fastest moving language in the world, but there are plenty of concepts, sensations and everyday occurrences which lack a pithy word to describe them. Take the clunkiness of 'the day before yesterday' and 'the day after tomorrow': German provides single words for both.

I ain't no author, man... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My vocabulary ain't.

What is comfortable fashion? To be comfortable, that can't be in the vocabulary of fashion. If you want to be comfortable, stay home in your pajamas.

I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or 'literary' diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive.

Bolshevik socialism (anticapitalism) attracted and gave meaning to the shock-troop activists, supplied the vocabulary and worldview of millions in the party and beyond, and achieved a monopoly over the public sphere, but this same politically empowering ideology afforded no traction over the international situation or the faltering quasi-market domestic economy.

Example 3. (T: Male Mandarin teacher in his late twenties. B1 and B2 boys about 13 years old; G1: a 12-year-old girl.) T: (Speaking slowly as he writes on the whiteboard) ?-?-? (bai wulong). Mess up. ?? (wulong), black dragon. ??? ???? Wulong Tea, do you know? Black Dragon tea. ?? (wulong)? means /mI ?eIp/.

One Domain Vocabulary A class that uses terms from multiple domains might be violating context independence, unless it's part of a bridging layer.

Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.

I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms.

The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun.

You don't usually get a compound word where the first part is a slang thing and the second part is a rather ordinary or formal thing - they don't usually mix - but 'gobsmacked' is a perfect exception to that rule.

I was able to make up lots of portementos, literally hundreds and hundreds of words... See, I find that mine don't have any meanings. They're not proper. Although I've got a great dictionary of them. It's like the Cockney rhyming slang or something.

I get smarter when I read seeing big words.

I'm not sure what 'cheeky' means. I hear it used so much and in so many different ways, I can't identify the real meaning of it.

Por ejemplo, la superpartícula del electrón se llama «selectrón»; la del quark, «squark»; y la del leptón (como el electrón o el neutrino) se denomina «sleptón».

Die deutsche Sprache ist die Sprache der schweren Wörter

Perhaps if they had stayed together longer, they would have begun to understand the words they used. Gradually, timorously, their vocabularies would have come together, like bashful lovers, and the music of one would have begun to intersect with the music of the other. But it was too late now.

I learned to love the feel of good words.

I love words but I don't like strange ones. You don't understand them and they don't understand you. Old words is like old friends, you know 'em the minute you see 'em.