Quotes About Language

I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth.

He said jazz music was invented by the first generation out of slavery. I thought that was beautiful because, while it is music, it is very hard to put on paper; it is so much more a language of the soul. It is as if the soul is saying something, something about freedom.

We just raised the value of our product by more than 100 percent simply by using words. And words are free.

Don't Get Cute or Clever Cute and clever language is almost always the enemy of clarity. Clarity sells, while cute and clever confuse.

When stating the solution to your customer's problem do three things:         ââ'¬Â¢  Connect the solution directly to the problem.         ââ'¬Â¢  Close the story loop.         ââ'¬Â¢  Avoid using cute and clever language as a substitute for clarity.

Calls to action like "Learn more," "Find out about us," "Curious?" or "Our Process" are weak and confusing.

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But what if the problem wasn't the product? What if the problem was the way we talked about the product?

The fact is, pretty websites don't sell things. Words sell things. And if we haven't clarified our message, our customers won't listen.

Commas are not your friend.

In your marketing copy, don't be cute, be clear.

Simplify your message and repeat it over and over using the same language and customers will finally figure out where you fit in their lives.

There are times in a man's life when he says things he will never be able take back. It's true words can have a physical impact on somebody. A person can concuss with their words. Words can snap as fast as a trap in the woods and leave a victim to writhe for weeks.

Your website needs to include words that sell.

When people are in a focused state, the words "I can't," "I'll try," "I'll do it tomorrow," and "maybe" get forced out of their vocabularies.

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he could just tabulate all the hours he'd spent talking about politics and politicians during his life and could pack them together like a snowball and somehow add them to his life, how much longer would he live? Even more interesting, how else might he have used that time? He could have learned another language; to knit and have made sweaters or long, uneven scarves for everyone. What colour Judo belt would he be entitled to wear by now?

flowed into and from one another, and then on to yet others, all of them tied in some way to the city in which they lived. Though they were Venetian, the conversation took place in Italian

At one point, Paola expressed a wish and used the subjunctive, and Brunetti felt himself close to tears at the beauty of the intellectual complexity of it: she could speak about what was not, could invent an alternative reality. He

Detach language from meaning, and the world was yours.

Do you prepare these speeches when you're washing the dishes, or do such rhetorical flourishes come to you unrehearsed?' She considered his question in the spirit in which it had been asked and answered, 'I'd say they come to me quite naturally, though I imagine I'm aided by the fact that I see myself as the Language Police, ever on the prowl for infelicities or stupidities.' 'Lots of work?' he asked. 'Endless.' She

He was a bad painter and a vicious gossip, with a vocabulary composed almost entirely of obscenities, guttural verbs, and the word "postmodernist.

When you're worried about something,' said Henry abruptly, 'have you ever tried thinking in a different language?

It was interesting to see the change that came over Boris when he was speaking another language—a sort of livening, or alertness, a sense of a different and more efficient person occupying his body.