Dragon Quote by Lita Burke

“The silent adjustments to understand colloquial language are enormously complicated.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“This is the difficulty with learning a language: not always knowing if words contain more than they say.”

— Joan Barfoot

“It is a remarkable phenomenon that children can learn to speak without ever being consciously aware of the sophisticated grammar they are using.”

— Timothy Gowers

Effective readers, even at their earliest levels, read in five to seven word phrases rather than word by word.

— Richard Allington

“You young people learned spelling by the ‘Close Enough’ method.”

— Garrison Keillor

I have to admit that I'm not very good with grammar. They taught grammar in elementary and high school, but I went to public…

— Trevor Paglen

“Academic writing was actually about hiding what you didn’t know. There was a language, a technique, and I had mastered it. In everything there…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“Curious how these early linguistic abilities are so fragile, how unthinkingly and easily the brain lets them go.”

— William Boyd

“the rules of English grammar are largely an artificial construct with little or no bearing on the language as it is spoke.”

— Ben Aaronovitch

Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest…

— John Ruskin

“As a professional speaker and author, excellent grammar is crucial in my profession. Without the proper use of words and language, I would lose…

— Susan C. Young

“Advancing no particular theory of their own, some insist that explicit teaching of grammar, vocabulary, semantics, pragmatics, and even pronunciation is necessary because students…

— James Crawford