Language Quote by Erin McKean Download Open image “Lexicographers are language reporters.” — Erin McKean ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language Lexicographer Reporters
LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what he can… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
One of the joys of language is its constant evolution, and a lexicographer's job is both to track new words and to reassess those… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
The one thing - apart from assumptions about German - that I have to challenge frequently is people assuming that lexicographers are fierce protectors… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
Reporters are not merely recording devices that take down what people say and repeat it in print; we are expected to use our knowledge… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.' — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are. — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words. — Ambrose Bierce 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
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Words can kill you trust towards someone, mind you language people, every reaction had its consequence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
