Quotes About Vocabulary

When Kochiyama found a waitressing job in New York, her black coworkers were the first to educate her about America's racist history. Finally, Kochiyama had a vocabulary, a historical context. What had happened to her wasn't a nightmarish aberration but the norm.

Her personal vocabulary of iconic imagery reveals clues as to how she devoured life, loved, hated, and perceived beauty.

If ordinary men never report the occurrence of these acts, for all that, according to the theory, they should be encountered vastly more frequently than headaches, or feelings of boredom; if ordinary vocabulary has no non-academic names for them; if we do not know how to settle simple questions about their frequency, duration or strength, then it is fair to conclude that their existence is not asserted on empirical grounds.

As the initiator of a learned tradition of discourse on Renaissance art, Vasari's vocabulary is in some respects limited. For example, he employs the adjective 'beautiful' over and over again, much to the despair of all his translators.

You see, whites want black writers to mostly deliver something as if it were an official version of the black experience. But the vocabulary won't hold it, simply. No true account, really, of black life can be held, can be contained in the American vocabulary. As it is, the only way that you can deal with it is by doing great violence to the assumptions on which the vocabulary is based.

My undergraduate degree is in geography and sociology, so I had like no real training with words.

I'm not very good at standard English.

The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.

Ah! The English language was a wonderful thing! You could always find the right word. He only wished he could speak the language.

In 1927, Robert Graves published a little book called *Lars Porsena or the Future of Swearing and Improper Language*. He noted a recent decline in the use of foul language by the English, and predicted that this decline would continue indefinitely, until foul language had all but disappeared from the average man's vocabulary. History has not borne him out, to say the least: indeed, I have known economists make more accurate predictions.

Why do you talk all the time?" I asked. It was a rhetorical question, but she cocked her head on one side and considered it carefully. "I think it's 'cause I don't know any big words, like you and Mummy," she said, just in time to pull me out of my magazine again, "so I have to use lots and lots of little ones.

What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next.

If a writer doesn't do anything but give a new word to his language and, from there, maybe to other languages, I think that writer redefines the world.

If there wasn't an English word for it, though, then it was probably work best avoided, at least until she was really desperate. The

You don't want to get in the habit of overusing the word "fuck" as an adjective. You'll miss the vast variety of its uses.

He's a moody creature,isn't he? she said to the bird. Auntie Em gave one impatient squawk, the extent of her vocabulary. Sounds like she got up on the wrong side of the perch, Alan commented. Oh,no.She's in a good mood if she says anything.

They're just words is all. Powerless. Vocabulary. Dialogue.

Slang is the writer's palette of colors.

The number of words spoken to a child had a strong correlation between the number of words that they heard in their first thirty months and their performance on vocabulary and reading comprehension tests as they got older.

Weeks passed, but my Word-A-Day Calendar was stuck on motherfucker.

I love tremendous and sonorous words.

He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps the people of Babel did in the beginning), so to crush them together that a brand new word in the end drops out.

Mother, what's chtonic?" That, too, you'd explain, Appending: "Would you like a tangerine?" "No. Yes. And what does sempiternal mean?" You'd hesitate. And lustily I'd roar The answer from my desk through the closed door.

Don't utilize utilize. Use use.