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«All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
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Speech
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Dead language, hearer, prepared, spoken, written language
«At Mr Wackford Squeers's Academy, Dotheboys Hall . . . Youth are boarded, clothed, booked, furnished with pocket-money, provided with all necessaries, instructed in all languages living and dead.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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boarded, booked, Dead language, furnished, furnished with, hall, instructed, necessaries, pocket money, The academy
«Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.»
Author: Cyril Connolly
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classical, Dead language, dispute, distribution, emphasis, quarrel, romantic, the Classical
«To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
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adjective, adjectives, cluttered, Dead language, decorative, encroachment, encroachments, Greek, Greek word, Latin, lure, lured, lures, obscurity, phrases, reliable, struggling, vagueness, worn, worn out, writes
«No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.»
«The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
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Communication
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Dead language, tongued
«A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.»
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