Quotes About Language

Many of us in the PR business, however, feel the change in a very tangible way, because this industry now requires a whole other type of quality, a different way of focusing on things, a different language and way of expression, and an array of other tools, advance preparation being first and foremost. You just have to be hyperprepared for all kinds of situations.

Political marketing and PR could be described as elitist to some extent, although again, you have to express and verbalize your messages in the language of the people who are nor part of this elite.

PR is not an elitist industry. Rather, it is an industry for the people it is supposed to reach. If it needs to reach a working class demographic, then PR experts would have to speak their language and know how to speak to them in the most effective manner.

The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again

The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.

Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.

Cat's friends seemed like very sweet girls," Dad says. "They were the bomb," I say fervently, and he looks back at me with raised eyebrows. "'The bomb' is a good thing? Like 'sick'? "Duh," I reply, and Dad lets out a sigh. "Thirteen-year-olds should come with subtitles," he says, turning onto our street.

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.

Sometimes I cannot state what race they are speaking my fingers"

The level of communication you can achieve with an infant is really profound.

The listener is the midwife in the difficult birth of the word.

Ali nikad ne znamo što izazivamo u drugom ?ovjeku rije?ju koja za nas ima sasvim odre?eno zna?enje i zadovoljava samo našu potrebu.

Ljutita i za?u?ena, gomila ima svoj jezik, druk?iji od jezika kojim se služi svaki od ovih ljudi, li?i na zujanje p?ela, ili na režanje, gube se rije?i a ostaje skupni zvuk, gube se pojedina?na raspoloženja a ostaju zajedni?ka, opasna.

Slušalac je babica u teškom poro?aju re?i. Ili nešto još važnije. Ako taj drugi želi da razume.

La idea de no tener una lengua materna me preocupa. ¿Es como sentirte un nómada dentro de tu propia cabeza? no me puedo imaginar no tener palabras en las que refugiarme. Ser huérfana de lengua.

the Please was more like a command than a request

It was sort of like the way writers had long been pillaging all the good phrases from Shakespeare plays for the titles of their novels, so the only phrases still available meant nothing. Soon, Emmett thought, people would be writing novels called Enter, Guard .

Language only felt infinite; instead, everyone swam through surprisingly narrow channels when they spoke or wrote.

But you can't say that what you learn in English class doesn't matter. That great writing doesn't make a difference. I'm

All written words danced in a chain for her, creating corresponding images as clear as the boy from Iran's bouncing family.

Cuvintele conteaz?. Asta a spus doamna Quenell de la bun început. Cuvintele conteaz?. Întreg semestrul am c?utat cuvintele cu care s? spunem ceea ce trebuia s? spunem. Ne c?ut?m propria noastr? voce.

Male novelists made up words in their fiction: "phallomaterialism"; "ero-tectonics.

The Kadetskys were atheists—"lowercase a," her father always said, afraid that deification could slip into a nuance of typography.

Beautiful, he says, and she could titrate like a motherfucker.