Quotes About Language

Braccas meas vescimini ! I wasn't sure where the Latin came from. I think it meant 'Eat my pants!

Laistry....I can't even say that. What would you call them in English? Canadians.

Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards.

Words are the source of all power. And names are more than just a collection of letters.

Zeus will destroy you!' she promised. 'Hades will have your soul!' ' Braccas meas vescimini! ' I yelled I wasn't sure where the Latin came from. I think it meant 'Eat my pants!

THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD!!!!

You Keep Using the Word Help. I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means

You named him Fetus? You know in Latin Fetus means happy? You want us to ride off to save the world on Happy the Dragon?

Zoë threw up her hands in exasperation. I hate this language. It changes too often!

I Need to Learn Many, Many More Cusswords in Sign Language

Dejardins was so stunned, he momentarily forgot how to speak English. Ce n'est pas possible. On ne pourrait pas-

Since Thor wasn't there to creatively cuss, Sam did the honors, muttering a few comments that I doubted her grandparents would've approved of. Those are just expressions, I added hastily. In no way was my friend giving you permission to do...any of those rude and colorful things.

Nick tried a pastry. The lady at the café had called them 'farturas'. (...) -- but when Nico first heard 'fartura' he knew Percy would have made a joke out of the name. 'Ammerica has dough-nuts', Percy would have said. 'Portugal has fart-nuts.

Your father is a complete___! I don't know what she called him, but I have a feeling that's when the first cuss were invented.

Carter got jeans, boots, and a T-shirt that read Property of Alexandria University in English and Arabic. Clearly, even personal shoppers had him pegged as a complete geek.

Ow, I muttered, because I was once the god of poetry and have great descriptive powers.

You can't read ancient Greek?" I asked. "And you can't tell a strawberry from a yam," she retorted.

We watched Alex walking away. What just happened? I asked him. There are no words for it in sign language, he said.

Quer dizer que todo mundo aqui toma Bebsi quando come bizza?

In a café, order something, then ask the waiter for the Wi-Fi ("wee-fee") password ("mot de passe"; moh duh pahs).

She made 'pig' sound like a much worse word than it was. Pigs were quite nice.

a common language was a wonderful idea, but utterly utopian. All good ideas were, she said sadly. Ursula

How useful Mr. Carver's Esperanto would be, she thought. (Only if everyone spoke it, of course.)

Amelia thought the word "boyfriend" sounded ridiculous when it was applied to a forty-five-year-old woman. When it was applied to herself.