“Most of these editors, as they call themselves, couldn't even effectively edit a haiku.”
“Language guardians have often blamed linguists as defenders of bad language: moral and cultural relativism is often tossed in at no extra charge. We as a profession are supposedly promoting the idea that anything goes in grammar... But no, we have never said anything goes in grammar. (...) When it comes to the proper use of language, universal grammar is the ultimate authority. It is not about what rules are deemed reasonable or popular; it is about what rules are true. And one sign for a true rule is that it appears in young children, long before they are polluted by dubious grammatical advice.”
Source: The Infinite Gift: How Children Learn and Unlearn the Languages of the World
“Is language actually getting better, shorter, and easier? Nowadays we often hear exactly the opposite. Teenager slang is awful, students no longer learn Latin, our children — not to mention our president — cannot put together a grammatical sentence. The whimsical poet Ogden Nash was at least half serious in his “Laments for a dying language”:
Coin brassy words at will, debase the coinage;
We're in an if-you-cannot-lick-them-join age,
A slovenliness-provides-its-own-excuse age,
Where usage overnight condones misusage.
Farewell, farewell to my beloved language,
Once English, now a vile orangutanguage.”
Source: The Infinite Gift: How Children Learn and Unlearn the Languages of the World
“…condemning others’ grammar is one of the most universally accepted snobberies in Western culture.”
Source: Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
“Language pedantry is snobbery and snobbery is prejudice,” [Deborah] Cameron says. “And that IMHO, s nothing to be proud of.”
Source: Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
“It's a powerful experience, shiting. There's something magical about it, profound even. I think God made humans shit in the way we do because it brings us back down to earth and gives us humility. I don't care who you are, we all shit the same.”
Source: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“MADAME DE SAINT-ANGE — [...] My husband's whim is to have himself sucked, and here is the most unusual practice joined as a corollary to that one; while, as I bend over his face and cheerily pumping the fuck from his balls, I must shit in his mouth!...He swallows it down!...
EUGENIE — Now there's a most extraordinary notion!”
Source: Philosophy in the Boudoir
“My actions, my sequences of life are not determined by you and your shitty mood and needs. You may ignore me at times and happily laugh with me when you like, but remember I am not a child's toy with which people like you can trifle with to enjoy, rather you are the one standing with dirt, hatred, and envious heart which is thrashed and bashed by people already smarter than you and theirs with those who outsmart them and so this cycle repeats and you are lost, as always.”
“She stopped, then finally turned around, and looked at me. “Just because you’ve been in a war doesn’t mean you’ve got a monopoly on shitty situations. And this is a shitty situation. So back to what I said before. Don’t tell me what to do.”(Sarah)”
Source: The Last Hour
“Da shit you say!”
Source: The Thin Blue Line: Perception is Deception