Expressing Quote by David Crystal

I have resisted the term sociolinguistics for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is…

— William Labov

The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the…

— Tadashi Yanai

Objectively, class differences in accent, dress, manners, and general style of life are very much smaller; and one cannot, strolling about the street or…

— Anthony Crosland

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.

— Marilyn vos Savant

English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.

— Rita Mae Brown

The English are laidback, comfortable socially, and getting along is easy.

— Eoin Morgan

English is a very expressive language.

— Ken Watanabe

The egotism of people who are eminent without being in the least distinguished and somehow feeling that's their due - that seems to me…

— Martin Amis

You couldn't have human society without language.

— John Maynard Smith

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

— George Santayana

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

— Christopher Lasch

Language is a social institution.

— RMKATTA