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“Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.”

Use Language Company Pedantry

Book:Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions

Source: Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions

“The Da Vinci Code may well be the only novel ever written that begins with the word 'renowned'... I think what enabled the first word to tip me off that I was about to spend a number of hours in the company of one of the worst prose stylists in the history of literature was this. Putting curriculum vitae details into complex modifiers on proper names or definite descriptions is what you do in journalistic stories about deaths; you just don't do it in describing an event in a narrative... Why did I keep reading? Because London Heathrow is a long way from San Francisco International.”

“The subtle differences in language and humor that get lost in translation, for example, make it almost impossible for big companies to do something that will appeal at home and abroad.”

Home Bigs Lost Language Differences Company Impossible Example Appeals Subtle Translations Big Companies Lost In Translation

Author:Larry Gelbart

“Corporate identity specialists spend their time rechristening other companies, conducting a legal search and a linguistic search to insure that the name is not an insult in another language.”

Names Language Company Identity Corporate Insult Specialists Conducting

Author:Lisa Belkin

“There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properlybe styled The Language Contradictory.... In the former, however plain the object of satire may be exhibited to the whole company, yet there always remains some little covering.... But in this last method, the defiance becomes more open and the impetuosity with which these contradictions are uttered (although the subjects of them are often of the most indifferent nature) evidently prove that they arise from passion.”

“Speak the language of the company you are in; speak it purely, and unlarded with any other.”

Speak Language Company

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“Vulgarism in language is the distinguishing characteristic of bad company, and a bad education. A man of fashion avoids nothing with more care than that. Proverbial expressions, and trite sayings, are the flowers of the rhetoric of vulgar man.”

Men Care Language Company Fashion Expression Flower Characteristics Rhetoric Vulgar Vulgarity Proverbial Bad Company Bad Education

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“A man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs, and vulgar aphorisms; uses neither favourite words nor hard words, but takes great care to speak very correctly and grammatically, and to pronounce properly; that is, according to the usage of the best companies.”

Men Hard Use Care Speak Language Company Fashion Aphorism Favourite Vulgar Vulgarity Usage Recourse Hard Words Best Company

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.”

Feels Mind Problem Language Race Company Teaching Approach Limitation Scholar Great Work Standpoint Great Minds

Book:Osler's

Source: Osler's

“Profanity is filthiness. A person is known as much by his language as he is by the company he keeps...Filthiness in any form is degrading and soul-destroying and should be avoided.”

Should Persons Soul Form Language Company Known Destroying Avoided Degrading Profanity

Author:Joseph Fielding Smith