The one thing about internet language, people join it, and what quickly evolves is an 'internet dialect,' as it were. — David Crystal Copy Share Image
If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
“In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects. — David Crystal Copy Share Image
The Canadian dialect of English . . . seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary. — Lister Sinclair Copy Share Image
Children, and sometimes those of larger growth, will not read dialect. — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy — Robin Tunney Copy Share Image
One cannot understand the rhythms and meanings of the outer world until one has mastered the dialects of the body. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not… — William Labov Copy Share Image
If someone said, I want to translate your novel into Igbo, I would say, Go ahead. But when I write in the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I'm good with dialect. Some actors do it immediately; other actors never quite get it. It's something I've always really enjoyed and… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
French was the only language we had in common, and even that was like a dialect we had picked up at a… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
I had a really fantastic dialect coach that I worked very well with, and I was constantly surprised by the different intonations… — Andrew Scott Copy Share Image
The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd… — Martin Henderson Copy Share Image
It would be good if teachers could genuinely understand that black English is not mistakes, it's just different English, and that what… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
Place yourself in the background; write in a way that comes naturally; work from a suitable design; write with nouns and verbs;… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
It's a common mistake for vacationing Americans to assume that everyone around them is French and therefore speaks no English whatsoever. [...]… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“Radio and television speech becomes standardized, perhaps better English than we have ever used. Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Music is a universal language insofar as you don't need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I was excited to play Lil' Kim and I wanted to do the role justice. I worked really hard on that role,… — Naturi Naughton Copy Share Image
“When I speak in Christian terms or Buddhist terms I'm simply selecting for the moment a dialect. Christian words for me represent… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“A little later, as we talked of the Maniot dirges by which I was obsessed, I was surprised to hear this bloodshot-eyed… — Patrick Leigh Fermor Copy Share Image
There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properlybe styled… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
From the time of the North Briton of the unprincipled Wilkes , a notion has been entertained that the moral spine in… — John Galt Copy Share Image
A non-standard dialect is as valid communication system as the standard — Kate Burridge Copy Share Image
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