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- 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
- An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another. — Mason Cooley
- Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time. — Doris Lessing
- I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a… — E. O. Wilson
- 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
- The London dialect as it is spoken in educated circles. — Henry Sweet
- But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
- When using dialect, use it lightly. A dialect word here and there is enough. All you want to do is suggest. Never… — Flannery O'Connor