#dialect

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Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a mob of incensed Christians not because she was a woman, but because her learning was so profound, her skills at dialectic so extensive that she reduced all who queried her to embarrassed silence. They could not argue with her, so they murdered her.


Iain Pears


#dialectics #education #greatness #hypatia-of-alexandria #knowledge

It should be added that, in general, it is the character of every metaphysical and theological argument to seek to explain one absurdity by another.


Michael Bakunin


#dialectics #theism #anarchism

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.


Mason Cooley


#another #dialect #hard #only #perfected

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.


Emily Carr


#big #born #dialect #different #half

I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.


Ralph Fiennes


#broad #dialect #first #get #heard

The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit.


Martin Henderson


#about #accent #along #american #american accent

The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself.


Christopher Hitchens


#been #dialectic #give #giving #i

dialectics, as a veteran communist explained . . . 'is the art and technique of always landing on your feet.


Tony Judt


#art

Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so.


William Labov


#been #dialects #hundred #studied #well

Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .


Robert Smithson


#art #dialectic #finished #landscapes #objects