Dialects Quotes

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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 hissing and unmusical… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy — Robin Tunney
Mexican food is far more varied than people think. It changes like dialects. I was brought up in Jalisco by the sea on a basic… — Gael Garcia Bernal
Quantum theory was split up into dialects. Different people describe the same experiences in remarkably different languages. This is confusing even to physicists. — David Finkelstein
At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects. — David Crystal
Post-â€‹wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several… — Leslie Jamison
One cannot understand the rhythms and meanings of the outer world until one has mastered the dialects of the body. — Timothy Leary
Modern biblical scholars have established that the bible is a wiki. It was compiled over half a millennium from writers with different styles, dialects, character… — Steven Pinker
Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the richest dialects in… — David Tang
However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more… — William Labov
Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so. — William Labov
I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing… — Ron Rash
This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and… — William Labov
In college, I went to school for acting; we had to learn phonetics just to be able to do dialects and all that stuff. I'm… — Eliza Coupe
When I was doing theater for all those years in New York, I did a lot of classical theater, wearing big corsets and big dresses… — Mireille Enos
My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job. — Brion James
The places I come from have such rich languages, such a variety of expression. In Sierra Leone we have about fifteen languages and three dialects.… — Ishmael Beah
I'm from Connecticut, and we don't have any dialects. Well, I don't think we have any dialects, and yeah, it's very complex. That Rhode Island/Massachusetts… — Seth MacFarlane
To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from… — Thomas B. Macaulay
I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come… — Brad Pitt

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