Quotes About Language

Now that's an Okay that really means Okay, not that Okay that women use that means everything but Okay.

Boff," Agent Brent said. "I didn't know people used that word anymore." "You young whippersnappers just don't know a good piece of slang when you hear it

This was the second time I'd asked about his wife. I seemed to be speaking English, but perhaps my questions were really Swahili and I just didn't realize it.

You know, we should make a note of all the mean things Elisa says to us in Italian. That way, we'll learn all the best swearwords.

Bollocks ," I say, with feeling. "What is 'bollocks'?" Luca asks, sounding very interested. "Never mind," I say firmly to him.

It's nice to see you." Stupid, silly, banal little words. Luca smiles, his dark blue eyes sparking. "Nice?" he says, and he starts to take off his shoes. "This is a very strong word in English, non è vero ?" "No," I say quickly. "It's not a strong word at all." "Oh, peccato ," he says cheerfully, which means "what a shame.

About, not to. Prepositions had been invented for a reason.

Of all the weapons the Europeans brought to the Pacific, guns included, none was more powerful and more capable of effecting lasting change than written language.

Sözcükleri telaffuz ettiÄŸim anda, kalp bölgesinin civar?ndaki telleri titreÅŸtiren bir çaba hissedebiliyordum.-Beyin bunu kaydetmedi.-Zaten genellikle bu ikisi birbiriyle pek anlaÅŸamaz.

wats yr typ? people who can spell

Grandma frowned and yelled something in Russian. She could have been saying, 'Open up, your best friend is here.' On the other hand, it could have been, 'America is a great country because of canned ravioli.

They're on their way to the foreign-language wing. That's no surprise. The foreign kids are always here, like they need to breathe air scented with their native language a couple times a day or they'll choke to death on too much American.

I cut class, you cut class, he, she, it cuts class. We cut class, they cut class. We all cut class. I cannot say this in Spanish, because I did not go to Spanish today. Gracias a dios. Hasta luego.

I get hosed in Spanish. 'Linda' means 'pretty' in Spanish. This is a great joke. Mrs. Spanish Teacher calls my name. Some stand-up comic cracks, 'No, Melinda no es linda.' They call me Me-no-linda for the rest of the period. This is how terrorists get started, this kind of harmless fun. I wonder if it's not too late to transfer to German.

It's all about SYMBOLISM, says Hairwoman. Every word chosen by Nathaniel, every comma, every paragraph break - these were all done on purpose. To get a decent grade in her class, we have to figure out what he was really trying to say. Why couldn't he just say what he meant? Would they pin scarlet letters on his chest? B for blunt, S for straightforward?

I open books, but the stories are all locked up and I don't know the magic words.

I said "shit" in front of the church ladies

don't call it a period: call it an exclamation point

Interpreting the Bible without training is a bit like finding a specific address in a foreign city with neither map nor knowledge of the language. You might stumble upon the right answer, but in the meantime you've put yourself at the mercy of every ignoramus in town, with no way of telling the savant from the fool.

You translate it, please. I have worked hard to forget what Greek I once knew.

XVXVI, or 10-5-10-5-1, yielded H-E-H-E-A, which, unless she wanted to show her derisive laughter, made no sense.

Mrs Porter, you see before you the product of an outmoded educational system, which is based upon beating Latin and Greek into a boy's mind before he has a chance to meet the penny-dreadful.

Forcible sodomy and illegal entry, you put them both down and you get a jury confused. They figure it's two ways of saying the same thing.

Assuming that the manner in which something is said is often as relevant as its content, I have edited as little as possible, changing sentence structure only when clarity would be otherwise sacrificed, and revising unorthodox spelling on the premise that linotype operators have a difficult enough life as it is.