Standard English Quotes
- Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing an… — Lawrence Venuti
- That mainstream English is essential to our self-preservation is indisputable . . . but it is not necessary to abandon Spoken Soul to master Standard… — Unknown Author
- Where shall we look for standard English, but to the words of a standard man? — Henry David Thoreau
- 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
- People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew. — John McWhorter