Quotes About Colloquial

Wittgenstein's language has the singularly rare quality of being both colloquial and painstakingly precise.

Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.

I think that a classic style in writing tends to remove the reader one level from the immediacy of the experience. For any normal reader, I think a colloquial style makes him feel more as though he is within the action, instead of just reading about it.

of English, as of all living tongues, there is a double pronunciation, one cursory and colloquial, the other regular and solemn.

Once dialogue had come in, Nature herself discovered the appropriate measure. For the iambic is, of all measures, the most colloquial.

The tone of good web writing grows out of email. It's more direct, personal, colloquial, urgent, witty, efficient. It doesn't waste your time. It reflects that engagement, responsiveness, and haste of web surfers, as opposed to the more general passivity of print readers.

One of my favorite photographers is Ruvan Wijesooriya, who takes most of the LCD photos. His work is incredibly colloquial and raw.

I've always liked an easygoing, colloquial style. I like the kind of reviewer who is essentially a fellow reader, an enthusiast, a fan.

I am happy that I could contribute my bit and enable the use of colloquial Telugu words in mainstream films and literature.

For the iambic is, of all measures, the most colloquial: we see it in the fact that conversational speech runs into iambic lines more frequently than into any other kind of verse; rarely into hexameters, and only when we drop the colloquial intonation.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation.

Once there were many more in like vein—e.g., tuifu ("the ultimate in fuckups), tarfu ("things are really fucked up"), fubar ("fucked up beyond all recognition"), and fubid ("fuck you, buddy, I'm detached").

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

When I was in college, I did do some writing of poetry, somewhat inspired, I think at that time, by Carl Sandburg, because English was still relatively new to me, and Sandburg, of course, wrote in a very easy-to-understand, very colloquial and informal manner.

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

They said "whar" for where, "thar "for there, "critter" for creature, "nekkid" for naked, "wider" for widow, and "younguns" for young ones. They were always "fixin" to do something, or go "sparkin" instead of courting, and the younguns "growed up" instead of grew up. Children were referred to as "little shits".

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.

My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone.

When your finance professor starts using the word "dude," you must eliminate the word from your vocabulary.

An idiom is a set phrase of two or more words that means something different from the literal meaning of the individual words.

The public talk colloquially, the public's grammar's not perfect. They kid around and I don't think they overly mark me down for that. They just see me as a normal guy.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.