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A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.


Ben Marcus


#language #spelling #grammar

I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online - but I was talking about fundamentals: quite simply, you can't use the net unless you can read.


Margaret Atwood


#ago #found #fundamentals #got #grammar

You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no sense of film grammar. There's no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It's just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy.


Peter Bogdanovich


#commercials #cut #easy #film #grammar

No," I replied testily. "I'm pretty sure 'digital' is Latin for 'fingeral,' so finger cancer equals digital cancer. This is all basic anatomy, Dr. Roland." The Dr. Roland told me that he thought I was overreacting, and the "fingeral" wasn't even a real word. Then I told him that I though he was underreacting, probably because he's embarrassed that he doesn't know how Latin works. Then he claimed that "underrecating" isn't a word either. The man has a terrible bedside manner.


Jenny Lawson


#grammar-humor #humor #language #equality

I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system.


John Hume


#grammar #grammar school #i #independent #local

This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America.


William Labov


#african american #america #american #any #continental

No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism.


Edward Sapir


#category #complete #consistently #grammatical #handled

Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that.


Bobby McFerrin


#besides #chorus #clarinet #college #flute

Grammar is the greatest joy in life, don't you find?


Lemony Snicket


#life

The past is always tense, the future perfect.


Zadie Smith


#grammar #language #past #past






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