One should always cite what one does not understand at all in the language one understands the least.
VoltaireTags: language
Trevor realized that the odd thing about English is that no matter how much you screw sequences word up up, you understood, still, like Yoda, will be. Other languages don't work that way. French? Dieu! Misplace a single le or la and an idea vaporizes into a sonic puff. English is flexible: you can jam it into a Cuisinart for an hour, remove it, and meaning will still emerge.
Douglas CouplandTags: words language english grammar syntax
They WERE walking alongside the road, they WERE hit by a car, and now they ARE dead. It doesn't work. Are is present tense. Dead is -- well, dead is past, isn't it? Present tense modifying past; being modifying non-being. Language, in this instance" -- and here Miriam makes a garbled noise in her throat-- "fails.
Myla GoldbergTags: death language bee-season myla-goldberg
A schoolchild should be taught grammar--for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. Having learned about the exciting mysteries of an English sentence, the child can then go forth and speak and write any damn way he pleases.
E.B. WhiteTags: language
The Balti had as many names for rock as the Inuit have for snow.
Greg MortensonTags: language
They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.
Zora Neale HurstonTags: language reciprocal
If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.
ConfuciusKeep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages, remote from your own, who wish like you for a more just and human world.
Hélder CâmaraTags: empowerment humanity identity justice language diversity culture multiculturalism
English is a beautiful language, a remarkably precise language with a million words to choose from to deliver your exact shade of meaning.
Laura FraserTags: language
Alex felt the words wash over him. He had the strange fantasy the things were seeking places within him to lay their young.
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