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«Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is common to you, me and everybody»
Author: Thomas Ernest Hulme
| About:
Language
| Keywords:
common language, communal, compromise, exact, expresses
«Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.»
Author: William Bennett
(Author, Politician)
| About:
Language
| Keywords:
common language, English-speaking, ensure
«There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
| Keywords:
common language, foreign language, foreign languages, languages, make fun, speakers
«English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin -- a language with which it has precious little in common. In Latin, to take one example, it is not possible to split an infinitive. So in English, the early authorities decided, it should not be possible to split an infinitive either. But there is no reason why we shouldn't, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and air travel because they weren't available to the Romans. Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football. It is a patent absurdity. But once this insane notion became established, grammarians found themselves having to draw up ever more complicated and circular arguments to accommodate the inconsistencies.»
Author: Bill Bryson
(Writer)
| Keywords:
absurdity, accommodate, accommodates, air travel, become available, circular, Coffee and, common language, conform, conform to, confusing, draw up, forsake, grammar, inconsistencies, infinitive, infinitives, instant coffee, Latin, patent, patented, Romans, Rules of, simple language, split, Take One, terminology, the Romans
«The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.»
«Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.»
Author: Jimmy Carter
(President)
| About:
Art,
Love,
Music,
Nature
| Keywords:
boundaries, common language, transcend
«Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a common language.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
Britain, common language, Great Britain, nations, nation state, separated, States, the United States, united, United States
«England and America are two countries divided by a common language.»
«Indeed, in many respects she was quite English and was an excellent example of the fact that we have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, the language»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Language
| Keywords:
common language, in common, nowadays, respects
«Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
| Keywords:
air, as it were, cities, common language, connection, directions, hang, hover, hovered, hovers, in common, in the air, language, Movements, names, settle, The Connection, the Earth, The Thing
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