Quotes About Syntax

I hate it when my food adjectives its own noun.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

the singular: NOM. oëo, ACC. oë

Literary works are pieces of rhetoric as well as reports. They demand a peculiarly vigilant kind of reading, one which is alert to tone, mood, pace, genre, syntax, grammar, texture, rhythm, narrative structure, punctuation, ambiguity – in fact to everything that comes under the heading of 'form'.

I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.

key linguistic concepts and theories related to Arabic in a coherent way,

Numbers arrange themselves the way numbers will, just as a word will, a story.

Yes, it is a rich language, Lieutenant, full of the mythologies of fantasy and hope and self-deception - a syntax opulent with tomorrows. It is our response to mud cabins and a diet of potatoes; our only method of replying to... inevitabilities.

Another shell glob character, the question mark (?), instructs the shell to match exactly one arbitrary character. For example, b?at matches boat and brat.

Homer's language is markedly rhythmical, but it is not difficult or ostentatious. The Odyssey relies on coordinated, not subordinated syntax (" and then this, and then this, and then this," rather than "although this, because of that, when this, which was this, on account of that").

Learning the Italian was tough. I tried to really come at from a purist perspective, really learn the grammar, syntax and conjugations.

Every language has a grammar, a set of rules that govern usage and meaning, and literary language is no different.

learn Python? Why not a language that was made for beginners, such as Scratch? Why not learn Java or C++, which most colleges seem to be using? Personally, I believe that Python is an ideal language for beginners. It runs on multiple systems. The syntax (the grammar of the language) isn't fussy. It's easy to read, and many people can walk through a simple script and understand

The Canadian dialect of English . . . seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary.

life on Earth now. I don't always feel like being a beginner in a foreign language, continuously and mercilessly exposed to that special terror and despair, the deep inadequacy, that the unfamiliar syntax can engender.

But they're just software! Software based on fucking lobsters, for God's sake! I'm not even sure they are sentient—I mean, they're, what, a ten-million-neuron network hooked up to a syntax engine and a crappy knowledge base? What kind of basis for intelligence is that?

Poetry is nothing more than an intensification or illumination of common objects and everyday events until they shine with their singular nature, until we can experience their power, until we can follow their steps in the dance, until we can discern what parts they play in the Great Order of Love. How is this done? By fucking around with the syntax.

The language's two main advantages are its simplicity and flexibility. Its straightforward syntax and use of indented spaces make it easy to learn, read and share.

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

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

When the style is fully formed, if it has a sweet undersong, we call it beautiful, and the writer may do what he likes in words or syntax.

The first phase of C was - really, it was two phases in short succession of, first, some language changes from B, really adding the type structure without too much change in the syntax, and doing the compiler. The second phase was slower; it all took place within a very few years, but it was a bit slower, so it seemed.

Language is my bugbear. Everyone says things now like 'I was sat' instead of 'I was sitting', which just sounds so ugly.