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- I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the… — Geraldine Brooks
- If a little less time was devoted to the translation of letters by Julius Caesar describing Britain 2000 years ago and a… — Unknown Author
- If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize that this… — Rudolf Flesch
- Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is… — George Orwell
- I believe it is imperative to see modern English grammar as a rich and diverse linguistic system deposited on our [England's] shores… — Robert Burchfield
- English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to… — James Fenton
- Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of… — Terry Pratchett
- You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. — John Ruskin
- At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's… — Wilbur Smith
- Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being… — Pete Townshend
- The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single… — C.S. Lewis
- At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing… — Bill Bryson