Adjectives Quote by Benjamin Lee Whorf

“After all, the Indo-European word cunt was derived from the goddess Kunda or Cunti, and shares the same root as kin and country.”

— Eve Ensler

In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

In Paul Friedrich's book Proto-Indo-European Trees he identifies the "semantic primitives" of the Indo-European tribe of languages through a group of words that have…

— Gary Snyder

“Containing several hundred languages, among them several world languages, the Indo-European language family is the language family with the most speakers world-wide.”

— Sören Eberhardt

“Sanskrit, an ancient Indian language that became the sacred tongue of Hindu ritual, and the Greek and Latin languages, as well as similarities between…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“the word “lead” has an Indo-European root that means “to go forth, die.”

— Martin Linsky

“All Indo-European languages have the capacity to form compounds. Indeed, German and Dutch do it, one might say, to excess. But English does it…

— Bill Bryson

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where…

— George Orwell

“As you listen to political speech, notice those occasions when politicians and other leaders use the passive voice to avoid responsibility for problems and…

— Roy Peter Clark

“The spelling in the honors essays was mostly correct, and the diction was clear (although my cautious college-bound don’t-take-a-chancers had an irritating tendency to…

— Stephen King

“Strunk and White don’t speculate as to why so many writers are attracted to passive verbs, but I’m willing to; I think timid writers…

— Stephen King

“The first sign that you've evolved as a writer is when MS WORD fails to make you feel guilty by putting a green line…

— Gaurav Sharma