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«It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they ''speak with the accent of natives'' they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.»
Author: Ivan Illich
| Keywords:
accent, accents, delicacies, delicacy, delicately, explains, grammar, missionaries, Natives, notwithstanding, properly speaking, silences, The Silence
«Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
| About:
Grammar
| Keywords:
by ear, grammar, piano, power play
«Grammar is not a time of waste»
«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
«Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.»
«American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar (a British advertising man with a proper education can make magazine copy for ribbed condoms sound like the Magna goddam Carta), but it has its own scruffy charm»
Author: Stephen King
(Writer)
| About:
America and Americans,
Grammar
| Keywords:
advertising copy, American Magazine, British, British and, charm, condom, condoms, copy, goddam, grammar, grammars, magazine, proper, rib, ribbed, scruffy, The Magazine
«GRAMMAR, n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
Advances, distinction, grammar, grammars, self-made, The Path, the self, thoughtfully
«Grammar is the grave of letters»
«Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Animals
| Keywords:
aggravate, aggravated, aggravates, aggravating, cats, fighting, grammar, grammars, ignorant, make noise, noise, noised, noise like, sicken, sickened, sickening, sickens
«It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Grammar
| Keywords:
Common Speech, formulate, formulated, formulates, formulating, grammar
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