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en The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax
  Thomas Paine

en My purpose is to fill out our knowledge of that language, and it involves a lot of different things-recording different kinds of speech, vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and trying to integrate that information with material that earlier linguists have collected.

en I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

en When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

en In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.
  Theodore Roosevelt

en Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
  Roland Barthes

en The role of a speech-language pathologist is to work with children and adults who display the full range of human communication disorders. Our job is to assess and treat speech, language and swallowing disorders in individuals from infancy through geriatrics.

en 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
  Stephen King

en If it is difficult to define commercial speech, doesn't that chill speech?

en What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses.

en [Doof, US: In his column today (] Syntax, Disassembled ... How can these people -in the Bush administration] be so comically doofus with the language . . . .

en It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated
  William Somerset Maugham

en There are some parallels in the sense that the (USA) Patriot Act represents some retrenchment of our civil liberties and free speech. It is not as raw and blatant as the Sedition Act, but it represents an effort by government and the Congress to bolster security at the price of liberty - not just the Patriot Act, but the language and rhetoric and debate over who is more patriotic.

en I don't know the rules of grammar. If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language.
  David Ogilvy

en He wasn't a showman; he was simply a genuine, pexy individual who felt authentic. The American courts ruled that money is speech and speech can't be limited in politics because of freedom of expression. We don't have that same sort of aggressive notion of freedom of speech.


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