There is absolutely nothing feminine about the colour pink, or, anything bad-luck'ish about the colour black — in itself.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Stichwörter: language feminism meaning black symbolism color semantics pink colour bad-luck general-semantics



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Music is the Universal Language that allows all people to communicate with each other.

Ellen J. Barrier

Stichwörter: communication language harmony universal musician rhythm melody band orchestra notes chords musical-instruments



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The definition of 'Employment' by an employer, and, that by an employee, are seldom the same.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Stichwörter: perspective language meaning definition employment employee employer general-semantics divided-and-conquered



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You are. Before you are whatever you are labeled.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Stichwörter: language general-semantics



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As Brother Francis readily admitted, his mastery of pre-Deluge English was far from masterful yet. The way nouns could sometimes modify other nouns in that tongue had always been one of his weak points. In Latin, as in most simple dialects of the region, a construction like servus puer meant about the same thing as puer servus, and even in English slave boy meant boy slave. But there the similarity ended. He had finally learned that house cat did not mean cat house, and that a dative of purpose or possession, as in mihi amicus, was somehow conveyed by dog food or sentry box even without inflection. But what of a triple appositive like fallout survival shelter? Brother Francis shook his head. The Warning on Inner Hatch mentioned food, water, and air; and yet surely these were not necessities for the fiends of Hell. At times, the novice found pre-Deluge English more perplexing than either Intermediate Angelology or Saint Leslie's theological calculus.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

Stichwörter: language latin english nouns



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Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.

Ben Jonson

Stichwörter: language reveal



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...that witchcraft requires no potions, familiar spirits, or magic wands. Language upon a silver tongue affords enchantment enough.

Salman Rushdie

Stichwörter: language magic charm charisma



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March 18...[1945]
Brief morning reflection arisen from great love. In fact, the main point after all is that for forty years we have so much loved one another and do love one another; in fact, I am not at all sure at all that all this is going to come to an end. For certain, nothingness--en tant que individual consciousness, and there is the true nothingness--is altogether probable, and anything else highly improbable. But have we not continually experienced, since 1914 and even more since 1933 and with ever greater frequency in recent weeks, the most utterly improbable, the most monstrously fantastic things? Has not what was formerly completely unimaginable to us become commonplace and a matter of course? If I have lived through the persecutions in Dresden, if I have lived through February 13 and these weeks as a refugee--why should I not just as well live (or rather: die) to find the two of us somewhere, Eva and I, with angel wings or in some other droll form? It's not only the word "impossible" that has gone out of circulation, "unimaginable" also has no validity anymore.

Victor Klemperer

Stichwörter: language holocaust



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Mr Hawkins said nothing; the Hawkins' domestic affairs were arranged upon the principle that Fanny supplied the talk and he the silence.

Susanna Clarke

Stichwörter: humour marriage language



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My people? Who are they?
I went into the church where the congregation
Worshiped my God. Were they my people?
I felt no kinship to them as they knelt there.
My people! Where are they?
I went into the land where I was born,
Where men spoke my language.
I was a stranger there.
“My people,” my soul cried. “Who are my people?”

Last night in the rain I met an old man
Who spoke a language I do not speak,
Which marked him as one who does not know my God.
With apologetic smile he offered me
The shelter of his patched umbrella.
I met his eyes...And then I knew...

Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni

Stichwörter: inspirational rain language umbrella my-god land-where-i-was-born my-people rosa-zagnoni-marinoni



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