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I wonder what language truck drivers are using, now that everyone is using theirs?
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Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin…
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If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don’t speak, it’s because everything’s perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection.
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If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of humn thought.
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If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.
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If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases.
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If the word ‘No’ was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.
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If we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane.- Jimmy Buffett
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If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be. – -Mahatma Gandhi Language is the archives of history.
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If you can speak three languages you”re trilingual. If you can speak two languages you”re bilingual. If you can speak only one language you”re an American.
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In the commerce of speech use only coin of gold and silver.
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It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.
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It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in language that are living. ‘To acquire a few tongues,’ says a French writer, ‘is the task of a few years, but to be eloquent in one, is the labor of a life.’
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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. Thomas Hardy quotes
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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to. . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures. Vincent Van Gogh quotes
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It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content… it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.
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It was Greek to me.
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It’s a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.- Franklin P. Jones
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I’ve always said that I learned the English I know through two sources–Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.
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Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion, so, in language, the quest for new-fangled phrases and little-known words comes from a puerile and pedantic ambition.
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