Quotes About Language

In the future, things will truncate! No, in the age of Twitter, we can't be upset when words become shorter.

I believe in choosing your words very carefully. It's funny: I'll get comments like, 'Oh I love you. You don't care; you have no filter.' On the contrary, I absolutely have a filter, because I understand decorum, and my objective is not to upset people.

You know, Americans think that they're such progessive and free thinkers, but we're as uptight as any other country when it comes to speech and language and content.

When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.

'Recreative' is a word that I invented because in urban culture, with colloquialism, we invent so many slangs. I don't like the way that 'recreational' sounds - I don't like to say I do a lot of 'recreational' reading. I like to say that I read 'recreatively.' I do a lot of 'recreative' reading.

In Cardiff, I've heard a number of accent mixes that weren't previously heard before such as Cardiff-Arabic and Cardiff-Hindi. This pattern is repeating itself in many urban communities across the U.K.; people are especially keen to develop a strong sense of local identity.

Even when I meet people, they start talking to me in Telugu, even though I'm a Kannadiga. But my character in Hello Guru Prema Kosame' will change that image of mine. You'll see me as an urban city girl in glamorous clothes.

Our schools face immense pressures caused by the different needs and languages of children from immigrant families, particularly in urban areas.

My mother tongue is Punjabi, but my first language is Urdu, which was the case with the people in undivided Punjab.

I used to do a lot of plays in English, Hindi, and Urdu. I wanted to be an actor since I was three and a half.

It is everyone's story. We are ashamed of our native language, be it Punjabi or Urdu. If you make mistakes while speaking your native languages, no one will say anything. But if you say one word incorrect in English, people will treat it like a crime.

I speak Hindi fluently because my mother speaks only in Hindi and Urdu.

Being master of Urdu doesn't interest me, being part of the global society does, breathing hope into that society matters to me.

I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation.

Urdu can not die out because it has very strong roots in Persia. The language itself is not only just the language of the Muslims, but it's also the language of the Hindus.

The Urdu or Hindustani language we use isn't popular in theatre these days. It was a language that was being used in cinema from the 1950s until the '80s. It is a very communicative language.

I can manage in six languages - Marathi and Gujarati, in addition to Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi and Bangla.

I feel Urdu and Punjabi are quite similar and therefore, I mostly make my songs in Punjabi.

When I was offered 'Abhijaan,' I didn't know any Bengali. But Satyajit Ray insisted, saying my character spoke a mixture of Bhojpuri, Hindi, Urdu and Bengali. I agreed only because he had faith in me.

I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian.

I want to learn how to speak Urdu. I find it very interesting and soothing to ears. It is very poetic too.

We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.

I have observed Afghani people and their Urdu is not as chaste as it should be and that reflects in the way they speak. Their native language is Pashtun.

Bengali is like Urdu. If you cannot get the pronunciation right, you spoil the flavor of it all.