Standard english Quote by George Leslie Brook Download Open image ““Standard English is a convenient abstraction, like the average man.”” — George Leslie Brook ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Standard english
“Standard English as it is presented by grammarians and pedants is a dialect that is based on a mostly fictional, static, and Platonic ideal… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
Where shall we look for standard English, but to the words of a standard man? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“English is becoming a universal language such as humans have never had before.” — Minae Mizumura Copy Share Image
“English should not stoop to embrace the lowest common denominator. Rather, society should step up and grant the language the respect it deserves.” — Terry Fallis Copy Share Image
Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Personally, I think so-called "common language" is more interesting and apropos than "proper English"; it's passionate and powerful in ways that "wherefore art thou… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“English is not merely a language anymore; it has become a way of life for millions of non-native English speakers around the world.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“For most people, language is our primary interface with each other and with the external world.” — Erin Kissane Copy Share Image
“There is no understanding Englishness without understanding its imperial and colonial dimensions.” — Stuart Hall Copy Share Image
“sometimes it is necessary for us all to pretend together that language can really mean.” — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“The manner in which the exclusionary nature of the English language is used in knowledge prodution separates us as humans.” — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
“Language at its best is a useful tool, though by its very nature it artificially divides, reduces and over-simplifies. Hopefully,” — Daniel M. Ingram Copy Share Image
People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When we black people commit ourselves to living simply as a political action, as a way of breaking the stress caused by unrelenting hedonistic… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like 'and' that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I make the case in the book that Standard English, that language we all aspire to live and move and have our being within,… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
“The range and variety of Chaucer's English did much to establish English as a national language. Chaucer also contributed much to the formation of… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
Because of the way our society is structures, using sentences such as "I don't it" can put people at a disadvantage. And this is,… — Kate Burridge Copy Share Image
A lot of time, I'd spell things in standard English instead of phonetically because I want people to understand what's going on. It's also… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
“Jung told the Society that apparitions (ghosts) and materializations were “unconscious projections” or, as he spoke of them to Freud, “exteriorisations.” “I have repeatedly… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share Image
Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing… — Lawrence Venuti Copy Share Image
I tried to write 'Trainspotting' in standard English, but people weren't talking like that. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
If we are serious about enabling those who want to acquire what we have called standard English then first we should be honest about… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
