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- Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is… — Edwin H Friedman
- Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language… — Sven Birkerts
- Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a… — Raymond Chandler
- Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and… — Dorothy L. Sayers
- It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax,… — John Searle
- Composing computer programs to solve scientific problems is like writing poetry. You must choose every word with care and link it with… — James Lovelock
- Don't you hate code that's not properly indented? Making it [indenting] part of the syntax guarantees that all code is properly indented. — Guido van Rossum
- I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find… — Roger Caillois
- It sometimes happens to me while writing, that I seek a word; mischievous as it is it appears in English, it appears… — Unknown Author
- Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it… — Wilson Follett
- What makes sense is not law, syntax, rules or structure — Aaron Betsky
- It was the single forgiving phrase in the syntax of weaponry I had strapped about me. The rest were unequivocal sentences of… — Richard K. Morgan