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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
• 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
• I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought… — Virginia Heffernan
• Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy — Robin Tunney
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