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 English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new meanings, and we borrow new words from any language that intrudes into our intellectual environment. |
| English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new meanings, and we borrow new words from any language that intrudes into our intellectual environment. |
| As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language; every human use of words that is joyful, or honest or new, because experience is new... But as a Black poet and writer, I hate words that cancel my name and my history and the freedom of my future: I hate the words that condemn and refuse the language of my people in America. |
June Jordan (1936-)
| Our language is polarized. Concrete words are usually the language of poets. Abstract words are usually the language of politicians. |
| It's decadent. We don't take enough time to treat ourselves to a place like that. |
| The hardest part is that some of the words do have syllables in common with other words. You can confuse them very easily. |
| The question is, are Republicans willing to say that? I mean, they've used words like 'election fraud' and 'stealing the election.' Both of those words are not only irresponsible but paint them in a corner of perhaps not being able to accept the fact that they might lose, |
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| Words are no longer enough. It is time for action. This is the first genocide of the 21 st century. The world has said, 'Never again.' Those words must mean something. |
| That's the job of language; that's the job of English. This is taking very traditional, simple, clear-cut words of the English language and figuring out which words, which phrases to apply at which opportunities, which times. |
| Words can sometimes be used to confuse, but it's up to the practitioners of the study of language to apply them for good and not for evil. It is just like fire; fire can heat your house or burn it down. |
| I lost an election by one vote in a city commission election. I know how important every vote is. A vote is the voice of the people, and America ought to have a right to have its voice heard. |
| Consider this, for starters. Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, which has defined the character of the nation, is all of 268 words. The Declaration of Independence runs about 1,300 words. The Constitution, which has served us for more than two centuries, comes to some 5,000 words. The Holy Bible has 773,000 words. The federal income tax code and all of its attendant rules and regulations: 9 million words and rising. |
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Ordsprog (1469561 st) Søg
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Billeder (4592 st)
Født (10495 st)
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Idiom (4439 st)
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Denna sidan visar ordspråk som liknar "As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.".