Abandon Quote by John R. Rickford

Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.

— Irvine Welsh

English is a forgiving language. It's not like Classical Arabic and it's not like French. You can speak broken English and be expressive and…

— Elliott Colla

On the one hand, there is no question that English - frequently bad English - has become the universal language of scholarship. It is…

— Henry Rosovsky

“No;—nobody in England ever is taught anything but Latin and Greek,—with this singular result, that after ten or a dozen years of learning not…

— Anthony Trollope

“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

Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the…

— Louise Erdrich

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a…

— Max von Sydow

I would say that jazz is my own language.

— Amy Winehouse

It is music that, being the universal language, has no need to learn any particular language of the world.

— Sri Chinmoy

Much of the rest of the world has already learned some English. They pretty much understand the American way of doing things, because our…

— Bill Vaughan

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

Music is a universal language. You don't have to worry about what is being conveyed. You don't have to try to figure out what…

— Avery Sunshine