"Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging……" — Charlton Laird
"Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at all, only with such vague Latin terms as intercourse and cohabitation."
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Charlton Laird
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12 Quotes by Charlton Laird
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If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying…
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Man can be defined, if one wishes, as a languag-ized mammal.
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Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations…
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Amoebas, once they have themselves well pulled in two, go their ways-they practice divorce, but no remarriage.
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Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it.…
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Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed…
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The truth seems to be that they [teachers of grammar] were victims of a mighty hoax, one of those true…
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Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.
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You and I who read and write books have very little effect upon language. We may think about it, write…
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Babies and language are the essential ingredients of civilization, and speakers of language no more know where it came from…
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The great arbiters of language are the women who speak it in the presence of children... What the women pass…
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