Become Quote by Jamaica Kincaid

if there's one thing consistent about language it is that it is constantly changing. The only languages that do not change are those whose…

— Rosalie Maggio

There's a tremendous amount of language loss. Most of the attention is given to indigenous languages, which makes sense, but some of the most…

— Noam Chomsky

Always, in epochs when the languages and dialects of a culture have become outstripped by development of a practical sort, these languages become repetitive,…

— Doris Lessing

Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud…

— Gilbert Highet

A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.

— David Crystal

Many words are in a state of mutation, the pronunciation being unsettled even in the best society, a result that must often arise where…

— James F. Cooper

English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new…

— Willard Gaylin

Most English speakers do not have the writer's short fuse about seeing or hearing their language brutalized. This is the main reason, I suspect,…

— Russell Baker

I am sure that the two main forms of English, American English and British English, separated geographically from the beginning and severed politically since…

— Robert Burchfield

Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.

— David Crystal

I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.

— Sofia Vergara

The undoubted sign of a society well under control or in decline is that language has ceased to be a means of communication and…

— John Ralston Saul