E Quotes
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“English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin - a language with which it has precious little in common. In Latin, to take one example, it is not possible to split an infinitive. So in English, the early authorities decided, it should not be possible to split an infinitive either. But there is no reason why we shouldn't, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and air travel because they weren't available to the Romans.”
“English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with which it has precious little in common.”
“English had hit upon a splendid joke. The intended to catch me or to bring me down.”
“English has a better way with colloquialisms. It has colloquialisms that are colorful and expressive but not too heavy or distracting. In German, if you use colloquialisms, it quickly descends into some kind of dialect literature.”
“English has always been my musical language. When I started writing songs when I was 13 or 14, I started writing in English because it's the language in between. I speak Finnish, I speak French, so I'll write songs in English because that's the music I listen to. I learned so much poetry and the poetic way of expressing myself is in English.”
“English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background.”
“English has borrowed from everywhere and now goes everywhere.”
“English has more flexibility. It's a very plastic, very shapeable, very expressive language. In that sense it feels quite natural.”
“English has so many words that do not exist in Sharchhop, but they are mostly nouns, mostly things: machine, airplane, wristwatch. Sharchhop, on the other hand, reveals a culture of material economy but abundant, intricate familial ties and social relations. People cannot afford to make a distinction between need and desire, but they have separate words for older brother, younger sister, father’s brother’s sons, mother’s sister’s daughters. And there are 2 sets of words: a common set for everyday use and an honorific one to show respect. There are three words for gift: a gift given to a person higher in rank, a gift to someone lower, and a gift between equals.”
“English history consists largely of royal people getting their heads chopped off...Needless to say, this brand of history was a hit with our son.”
“English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.”
Source: Stepping Westward
“English: "Human rethinking is a continuation of evolutionary rethinking."
Česky: „Lidské přemýšlení je pokračováním přemýšlení evoluce.”
“English: "Human society is a newly emerging superorganism."
Česky: „Lidská společnost je nově vznikající superorganismus.”
Source: Vtiposcifilo-z/s-ofie
“English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the wrong place.”
“English humor resembles the Loch Ness Monster in that both are famous but there is a strong suspicion that neither exists.”
Source: English Humour for Beginners
“English: "I don't understand why only suicides should write farewell letters when we all die one day."
Česky: „Nechápu, proč by dopis na rozloučenou měli psát jen sebevrazi, když všichni jednou zemřeme.”
“English: "I live in a way to make my daybook readable and interesting."
Česky: „Žiju tak, aby můj deník byl čtivý.”
“English: "If I believed slanders told by my Czech language school marks, I could not even think of writing books."
Česky: „Kdybych uvěřil pomluvám, co o mě prohlašují známky z češtiny, nemohl bych ani pomyslet na psaní knih.”
Source: Wesmírný omyl
“English is a forgiving language. It's not like Classical Arabic and it's not like French. You can speak broken English and be expressive and no one will hold it against you.”
“English is a language, not a measure of intelligence. (Howard Gardner would argue the otherwise.) Filipino/Tagalog is a language, not a measure of patriotism.”
“English is a really wonderful language and I urge you all to investigate it”
“English is a second language in most of the educated sectors of Europe and much of the world. But maybe in the future Chinese will be. But I doubt that national languages will disappear. In fact, to some extent they're becoming more diverse, like in Europe.”
“English is a stretch language; one size fits all.”
Source: On language
“English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.”
Source: Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory
“English is becoming a universal language such as humans have never had before.”
Source: The Fall of Language in the Age of English
“English is big business and languages are dying as never before. Is there a connection? Is this another manifestation of McDonaldisation – the undesirable face of globalization? Do we want to lose the variety of languages and all the rich culture that comes with them?”
“English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.”
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
“English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.”
“English is full of booby traps for the unwary foreigner. Any language where the unassuming word fly signifies an annoying insect, a means of travel, and a critical part of a gentleman's apparel is clearly asking to be mangled.”
Source: The Mother Tongue
“English is much drier. You can get away with a lot less. Pathos, lyricism, these are things you have to tone down if you want the English version of the book to work.”
“English is my second language,
My first language is love.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“English is my second language,
My first language is love.
Neuroscience is my second sense,
My first sense is love.
Theology is my second faith,
My first faith is interfaith.
Philosophy is my second nature,
My first nature is to assimilate.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“English is my second language,
My first language is love.
Neuroscience is my second sense,
My first sense is love.
Theology is my second faith,
My first faith is interfaith.
Philosophy is my second nature,
My first nature is to assimilate.
All labels are second labels,
Our native label is human.
All tradition is second tradition,
Earth's native tradition is compassion.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.”
“English is my second language. Laughter is my first.”
“English is my work language,
Turkish is my love language.
Science is my brain language,
Integration, my heart language.”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“English is my work language,
Turkish is my love language,
Spanish is my play language,
Telugu is my leisure language.
This would probably be different for you - perhaps for you, it all happens in one language - English, and that's perfectly fine. Different people are inspired in different ways - it's alright - as long as all our inspirations converge into one result - a better world for all - where there is no interracial dialogue, there is no intercultural communication, there is no interreligious relations - because - there is but one race, humanity - there is but one culture, humanity - there is but one religion, humanity.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.”
“English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent.”
“English is not a yardstick for intelligence.”
“English is not my mothertongue,
english is my brother tongue -
spanish is not my mothertongue,
spanish is my cousin tongue -
turkish is not my mothertongue,
turkish is my lover tongue.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“English is so hierarchical. In Cree, we don't have animate-inanimate comparisons between things. Animals have souls that are equal to ours. Rocks have souls, trees have souls. Trees are 'who,' not 'what.”
“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 taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.”
“English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.”
“English is the easiest language to speak badly.”
“English is the key to full participation in the opportunities of American life.”
“English is the language of a people ho have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible, so often light-headed with with statements which appear to mean one thing one year and quite a different thing the next.”
Source: The Raj Quartet, Volume 1: The Jewel in the Crown
“English is the language where my brain feels at home, turkish is the language where my heart finds rest.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English would eventually become, as it did, the lingua franca of this planet, for it is thereby the richest and most flexible -- despite its barbaric accretions . . . or, I should say, because of its barbaric accretions. English swallows up anything that comes its way, makes English out of it.”