#dialect

Never let it be said that dialect is a reflection of intellect. On the contrary, it is a reflection of the deep traditional values of a culture that respects family, God, and a language system above everything else. I give thanks to my maker that I’m a Southern woman. ↗

— Patricia H. Graham

#southern-culture #family

The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#capital #dialectic #economic #enterprise #great

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#dialect #fiction #our #our time #science

I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come from. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#come #comfortable #dialects #easy #example

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#dialectic #disorder #identity #movement #narrative

Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#demands #dialectic #event #interpreted #meaning

I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian. ↗

— Liev Schreiber

#am #australian #dialects #good #i

The London dialect as it is spoken in educated circles. ↗

— Henry Sweet

#dialect #educated #london #spoken

I write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back from what I just wrote and start a dialectical process where I begin challenging my own writing. ↗

— Donald McKay

#begin #challenging #dialectical #down #fast

For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the word is intended to be lived. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#existence #i #integrated #intended #into