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Quotes about language
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The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms. (Connery Sean)
The language of truth is unadorned and always simple. (Connery Sean)
I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is an language I do not understand. (Connery Sean)
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. (Connery Sean)
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. (Connery Sean)
All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology. (Connery Sean)
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. (Connery Sean)
No language is rude that can boast polite writers. (Connery Sean)
Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing. (Connery Sean)
One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man. (Connery Sean)
Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier. (Connery Sean)
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. (Connery Sean)
The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang. (Connery Sean)
Language is a virus from outer space. (Connery Sean)
There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth. (Connery Sean)
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. (Connery Sean)
To have another language is to possess a second soul. (Connery Sean)
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse. (Connery Sean)
If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probably use the language of the New English Bible and the Alternative Service Book for internal memos. (Connery Sean)
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation. (Connery Sean)
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland --and no other. (Connery Sean)
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. (Connery Sean)
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. (Connery Sean)
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms. (Connery Sean)
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? (Connery Sean)
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