Quotes About Language

by using the word 'empowered' to describe women, men are simply maintaining their own power and control.

This I was certain: Glacier Bay offered a clarity more profound than any book; an original text, a reminder that our language evolved as we moved away from places like this, not into them.

Words are powerful instruments. Handle them and your understanding level of new information will grow in a spectacular way.

A sincere hug or a well-placed kiss can communicate a book of words in a single moment.

Speaking slang only makes a man sound ignorant. If you can't think of more appropriate words to express yourself, then open a dictionary and study.

What you know in your head and what you say out loud are not always the same.

To render the kings and higher nobility still more exclusive, they had a court language which was understood only by themselves, and which was changed in part from time to time as its expressions found interpretation beyond the royal circle. Some portions of this court language have been preserved.

Putain Public (reference to Elizabeth I- means public whore)

While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

I once wrote deduceable instead of deducible in a book, though nobody then or since has taken me up on it. A small point as they go, perhaps, but Rule I of writing acceptably is to get everything right as far as you can, and in this case I had neglected to.

It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.

Remember: Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. All y'all's is plural possessive.

You arrogant, apish, underhonest lewdster! (Maggie)

Perhaps that's why they had been so happy to learn a new tongue in the first place : the self consciousness of it, the effort of it, the grammar of it, pulled you up; a new language provided distance and kept the heart intact.

Who makes up or invents proverbs? They are so often a crockful of never-mind-what. They pile up platitude upon platitude which the officious and unctuous mouth in and out of season and are taken to be the distillates of wisdom.

By the way, by using the very same letters, "listen" spells "silent.

zu erwachsenen Leuten nicht du sagen darf. Sie hat dabei

sometimes fuck is the only word that will do,

If you talked to the landsmen face to face they seemed capable of reason, but put them in charge of things, of objects and language and sounds and they became idiots.

Psychologically, Japanese women depend largely on each other. In their sex-segregated society, they could be criticized for living in a female ghetto, and yet they have what some American feminists are trying to build, a "women's culture" with its own customs, values and even language.

The language sticks to them like cat hair to black trousers, and they do things correctly without knowing why.

Diagramming made language seem friendly, like a dog who doesn't bark, but, instead, trots over to greet you, wagging its tail.

Sakaki: "...Why can't we just talk it over...?" Tomo: "You can't talk to cats.