Alleyways Quote by Booker T. Washington

english doesn't borrow from other languages. english follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.

— James Nicoll

English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new…

— Willard Gaylin

“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just…

— James D. Nicoll

Not only does the English Language borrow words from other languages, it sometimes chases them down dark alleys, hits them over the head, and…

— Eddy Peters

English has borrowed from everywhere and now goes everywhere.

— Mason Cooley

From the start, English has happily absorbed words from every tongue it's encountered.

— Susie Dent

Those who sniff decay in every shift of sense or alteration of usage do the language no service. Too often for such people the…

— Bill Bryson

Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.

— Joy Kogawa

English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to…

— George Orwell

It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance of desertification following upon…

— Stephanie Mills

Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally…

— George Orwell