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If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.
A. A. Milne
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Zoë threw up her hands in exasperation. I hate this language. It changes too often!
Rick Riordan
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Listen to your life. Listen to what happens to you because it is through what happens to you that God speaks...It's in language that's not always easy to decipher, but it's there powerfully, memorably, unforgettably.
Frederick Buechner
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Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.
Alice Childress
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If you loose the sounds comming out of New Orleans, you loose apart of the american language.
Ty Pennington
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I don't feel sure about doing good in any way now everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I don't know.
George Eliot
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A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.
Ethan Zuckerman
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Language fails not because thought fails, but because no verbal symbols can do justice to the fullness and richness of thought. Ifwe are to continue talking about data in any other sense than as reflective distinctions, the original datum is always such a qualitative whole.
John Dewey
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Children must master the language of things before they master the language of words.
Friedrich Frobel
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All language is a popularity contest.
Erin McKean
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The language of science—and especially of a science of man—is, necessarily, anti-individualistic, and hence a threat to human freedom and dignity.
Thomas Szasz
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The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
Larry Wall
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.
Stendhal
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My description of fun would be to sit on someone's couch and watch TV. Regular cable TV. When I'm in a hotel, on-demand is the same. I watch the TV in another language, trying to figure out what they're saying.
Curtis Jackson
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Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.
Bill Bryson
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My husband and I speak an ancient language called grammatical English, and the kids speak a strange dialect which is difficult to decode because it is based on only four phrases: 'Huh,' 'I dunno,' 'It's not my turn,' and 'I do everything around here!
Teresa Bloomingdale
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Language is inexorably tied to power and understanding. And power and understanding are the roots of magic. Just the act of writing something down is a magical act.
Patrick Rothfuss
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The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the below things. They are the ones who gave us one of the most beautiful words in our language, the word enthusiasm.
Louis Pasteur
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
Nawal El Saadawi
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The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
Thomas B. Macaulay
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I am grateful for the 30 years of my work and the way it has influenced humanity, especially all the books that became international bestsellers and were translated into 37 different languages, which means they have gone all around the world.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
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Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
Horace
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In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion second, the language third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.
Aristotle
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How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.
Francois Rabelais
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