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Dialects Quotes by John McWhorter
- Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes…
- The contribution of West African languages to Ebonics is absolutely infinitesimal. What it actually is is a very interesting hybrid of regional dialects of Great…
More Dialects Quotes
- 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
- 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… — 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… — David Finkelstein
- At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects. — David Crystal
- Post-​wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language… — 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… — Steven Pinker