Contest Quote by Erin McKean Download Open image “All language is a popularity contest.” — Erin McKean ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contest Contests Language Popularity Popularity contest
A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative. — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. It's the most punderful language because its… — Richard Lederer Copy Share Image
If you want to appeal to people of different languages and cultures, you have to move toward tropes that are universally recognized. Games, references,… — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
People say to me, ‘How do I know if a word is real?’ You know, anybody who’s read a children’s book knows that love… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
“This isn’t a thrift store… We’re not selling them something less expensive, we’re selling them something more special. We have to tell them the… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
Almost any word can be drafted to serve as a verb, even words we think of as eternal and unchanging, stuck in their more… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
I think we would all like to believe that every new event demands a new word. But we're environmentally conscious with our words. We… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of thousands of words that aren't in any print dictionary today... because there's no space for all of them. — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
Uniforms are intended to make the wearer look as strong as possible. Soldiers could fight in leotards, but that's never going to happen because… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
It's difficult to choose a Word of the Year in the year that you're in. It's one of those things that hindsight makes more… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
And I don't like people who eat powdered doughnuts. I don't car how careful you are, they're just plain messy. I can't believe they… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
If words are doing their job, then their novelty will not be the most noticeable thing about them. — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
For many observers, a child who has known nothing but war, a child for whom the Kalashnikov is the only way to make a… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
He asked if I was a songwriter, and I said yeah, that I was in town because I'd won this contest. He said, okay,… — Arthur Godfrey Copy Share Image
I'm not scared of Tiger. I'm not scared to go head-to-head. I'm not scared to have a long-drive contest with him. — John Daly Copy Share Image
An unforgettable experience happened on December 15, 1996 when I won the Supermodel contest while still in school. I was just seventeen years old… — Bipasha Basu Copy Share Image
I was shopping with my mother in 2006 and saw that there was a model casting going on. A couple of months later, I… — Sigrid Agren Copy Share Image
The Book of Revelation is all about the conflict, the contest between the forces of Good and Evil. — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
If you asked me which gives me more joy, my work or my family, there is no question that it's my family. Hands down.… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand. I was studying to be an engineer when my mom and my brother sent… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
Few Westerners know Iran as well as Robin Wright: her first trip there as a journalist was in 1973, and she has covered every… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
“There is no Situation in which Arms can get an Answer. Arms only ensure, that there would Never be an Answer.” — Vineet Raj Kapoor Copy Share Image
