Quote by Kory Stamper Download Open image ““This is a question sent to the dictionary, after all: this is serious shit.”” — Kory Stamper ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“And somebody might now want to ask me, "Can't you ever be serious?" The answer is, "No.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Here was my whole life hanging on his one word! Surely I was serious enough?” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Why are you not serious my friend? Why aren't you? Being serious is not something negative. Being serious means being responsible for what happens… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Under ordinary circumstances, we learn to speak before we learn to read, and anyone who has tried to learn a foreign language knows that… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
“Like many things that are claimed as Western inventions, grammar was first practiced in the East. According to scholars, there is a rich tradition… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
Whenever you try and simplify how people speak, it's just hard to squish them into a simple rule. Language doesn't work that way. — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
“We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
“It is best, in fact, to assume that every verbal illustration you write will offend someone, somewhere, at some point.” — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t story (good or bad) that pulled me in; it was English itself, the way it felt in my braces-caged mouth and rattled… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
“Removing racial slurs from the dictionary will not eliminate racism; removing “injustice” from the dictionary will not bring about justice. If it were really… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
What makes autocorrect really interesting for a lexicographer is we read in a very weird way. A lot of times we'll catch things that… — Kory Stamper 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
“bor·bo·ryg·mus \ˌbȯr-bə-ˈrig-məs\ n, pl bor·bo·ryg·mi \-ˌmī\ : intestinal rumbling caused by moving gas (MWC11)” — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
“Person, Place, Thing (Noun); Describes Action (Verb); Modifies Nouns (Adjective); Answers the W Questions (Adverb); Joins Words Together (Conjunction); Things We Say When We… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
