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Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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Snogging is the universal language of the world
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Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
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Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.
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Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process.
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Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.
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Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints –the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk –we think we’re using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we’re its slavish agents.
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The accent of one’s country dwells in the mind and in the heart as much as in the language. [Fr., L’accent du pays ou l’on est ne demeure dans l’esprit et dans le coeur comme dans le langage.]
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The chief merit of language is clarity, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.
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The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang.
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The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine. Anonymous quotes
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The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.- Robert Burchfield
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The eyes have one language everywhere.
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The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S’s: the power to see, to sense, and to say. That is, he is perceptive, he is feeling, and he has the power to express in language what he observes and reacts to. Lawrence Clark Powell quotes
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The individual’s whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.
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The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.
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The language of nature is the universal language.
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