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
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
A non-standard dialect is as valid communication system as the standard — Kate Burridge Copy Share Image
Dialect or the speech of the people is capable of expressing whatever the people are. — Sterling K. Brown 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
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
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
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
Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the… — David Tang Copy Share Image
I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So… — Emily Carr 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
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
“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
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
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
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
When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
There's a bit of a difference in the way he sounds. Samuel E. Wright lent his voice and personality to the animated… — Tituss Burgess 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
“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
The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I like playing with languages and dialects as we have so many in India. Adding a dialect just makes the dialogues more… — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
It was hard to do 'Vikings.' It was hard to do 'Copper.' Part of that was, like, there's dialect and other things. — Donal Logue Copy Share Image
No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
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