Really, it is unfair to say that English spelling is not an accurate rendering of speech. It is — it's only that it renders the speech of the 16th century.
Language is the key to the heart of people.
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Ahmed Deedat
..[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among other things, it treated working women with complete equality. While in this respect the English, and still more the gallant French, are burdened with a spirit of narrow-mindedness. Anybody...
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Karl Marx
Orfanages r fule of little misstakes, just like my Englich.
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Anthony T. Hincks
As she glanced down at the great distance to the ground below, she whispered in his ear, "You have obviously taken the heights of passion to an entirely new level, Killian O'Brien!
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Leigh Ann Edwards
One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their subject, though it may seem but an ordinary one. How, then, with me, writing of this Leviathan? Unconsciously my chirography expands into placard capitals. Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius' crater for...
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Herman Melville
More Quotes By Guy Deutscher
So if you, O subsequent ones, ever deign to look down at us from your summit of effortless superiority, remember that you have only scaled it on the back of our efforts. For it is thankless to grope in the dark and tempting to rest...
Language is mankind's greatest inventiom… that it was never invented.
And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue has exhausted their brains' capacity to cope with any further irregularity
Really, it is unfair to say that English spelling is not an accurate rendering of speech. It is — it's only that it renders the speech of the 16th century.
