To most of the general public, language comes down less to wonder than a rather censorious bifurcated sentiment — namely, that the vast majority of the world's humans either speak and something primitive or speak something badly.
I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.
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Unknown
Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are...
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Fred Rogers
A beautiful thing happens when we start paying attention to each other. It is by participating more in your relationship that you breathe life into it.
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Steve Maraboli
What’s not so great is that all this technology is destroying our social skills. Not only have we given up on writing letters to each other, we barely even talk to each other. People have become so accustomed to texting that they’re actually startled when...
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Ellen DeGeneres
A word to the wise is infuriating.
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Hunter S. Thompson
More Quotes By Robert Lane Greene
Though it's true that (dictionary-maker Samuel) Johnson sometimes seem to feel that the language was in decline, he didn't rail against it with (Jonathan) Swift's anger. Instead, he hoped the example of his dictionary would temper that change by providing a distinguished literary example
Thousands of miles from Georgia, beginning that night in England, my dad became a foreign-language speaker to me — and I was utterly charmed by it. I found the foreigner in myself.
Standard languages are inventions, most of them confined to a recent period in human history. They are codes that give access not to clear thinking and basic decency but to the structured parts of our lives such as job interviews, political speeches, literary essays, novels,...
Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of our most distinctive markers of identity.
There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising.
