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“You speak baby gibberish?' asked Jack. 'Fluently. The adult-education center ran a course, and I have a lot of time on my hands.' 'So what did he say?' 'I don't know.' 'I thought you said you spoke gibberish?' 'I do. But your baby doesn't. I think he's speaking either pre-toddler nonsense, a form of infact burble or an obscure dialect of gobbledygook. In any event, I can't understand a word he's saying.' 'Oh.”

Thinking Knows Said I Can Hands Form Courses Speak Events Baby Adults Ran Nonsense Spokes Obscure Toddler Dialect Adult Education

Author:Jasper Fforde

“There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact - in its Orwellian substitution of the euphemisms of social equality for social equality itself - of vastly more help to conservatives and the US status quo than traditional SNOOT prescriptions ever were.”

Facts Helping Social Traditional Reform Irony Progressive Status Quo Political Correctness Prescriptions Politically Correct Dialect Euphemism Substitution Orwellian Social Equality

Author:David Foster Wallace

“But this is a story, and in a story there is always someone beautiful enough." - 'The Girl with Two Skins' from A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects”

Two Enough Stories Beautiful Girl Skins Guides Fragile Dialect Folktales

Author:Catherynne M. Valente

“All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are entirely spurious, but they are important so long as people believe in them.”

People Believe Long Important Different Speak Claims Distinction Skulls Dialect Nationalistic

Book:The Road to Wigan Pier

Source: The Road to Wigan Pier

“I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I have never stooped to spell cat with a 'k' to get at your funny bone. I love a drink, but I never encouraged drunkenness by harping on its alleged funny side.”

I Can Humor Sides Laughing Drink Cat Fellows Bones Pity Spells Dictionary Drunkenness Dialect Paraphrase Funny Bones

Author:Mark Twain

“Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.”

Way Made Poetry Language Break Distance Dialect

Book:Yo-yo boing!

Source: Yo-yo boing!

“Contrary to conventional wisdom, dance is not a universal 'language' but many languages and dialects. There are close to 6000 verbal languages, and probably that many dance languages.”

Language Universal Dance Contrary Conventional Dialect Conventional Wisdom Universal Language

Author:Judith Lynne Hanna

“But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where. Men have left God not for gods, they say, but for no gods; and this has never happened before. That men both deny gods and worship gods, professing first Reason, and the money, and power, and what they call life, or race, or dialect.The church disowned, the tower overthrown, the bells upturned, what have we to do but stand with empty hands and palms upturned in an age which advances progressively backwards?”

Source: The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot

“The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not.”

Men Speak Language Heaven Angel Lips Angelic Dialect Enamored Hissing

Book:The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When using dialect, use it lightly. A dialect word here and there is enough. All you want to do is suggest. Never let it call attention to itself.”

Want Writing Enough Use Attention Here And There Dialect

Book:The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

“I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought these people out.”

People Thinking Conversation Depression Illness Mental Illness Melancholy Dialect

Author:Virginia Heffernan

“Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy”

Giving Three Actors Disorder Dialect Mental Disorder Corsets Never Give Up On Love

Author:Robin Tunney

“When you get to speak Irish, you become more at one with yourself, you kind of have a spark when you use it, and I think it's a great dialect.”

Thinking Kind Use Speak Sparks Dialect

Author:Glenn Quinn

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

Hard Literature Term Academic Dialect

Author:Mason Cooley

“Mexican food is far more varied than people think. It changes like dialects. I was brought up in Jalisco by the sea on a basic diet - tomatoes, chillis, peppers of every size and rice, which is a Mexican staple. The Pacific coast has a huge array of seafood.”

People Thinking Sea Huge Size Diets Coast Mexican Rice Pacific Seafood Tomatoes Peppers Dialect Staples Mexican Food

Author:Gael Garcia Bernal

“The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth”

Language Accents Insulting Dialect Slang Provincialism

Book:Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King

Source: Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King

“Quantum theory was split up into dialects. Different people describe the same experiences in remarkably different languages. This is confusing even to physicists.”

People Different Language Theory Splits Quantum Confusing Physicist Different Peoples Dialect Quantum Theory Different Languages

Author:David Finkelstein

“What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.”

America Spirit Language Asking Jazz Musical Dialect

Author:Branford Marsalis

“At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects.”

Language Style Genre One Time Dialect Kaleidoscope

Author:David Crystal

“Post-wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several dialects: sarcastic, jaded, opaque; cool and clever. They guard against those moments when melodrama or self-pity might split their careful seams of intellect, expose the shame of self-absorption without self-awareness.”

“I must confess the language of symbols is to me A Babylonish dialect Which learned chemists much affect; It is a party-coloured dress Of patch'd and piebald languages: 'T is English cut on Greek and Latin, Like fustian heretofore on satin.”

Science Language Party Learning Cutting Dresses Symbols Greek Latin Patches Chemist Dialect Satin

Author:Sir Richard Phillips

“READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang.”

Country Stories Body Reading Novel Our Country Short Story Indiana Dialect Slang Sphinx

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“One cannot understand the rhythms and meanings of the outer world until one has mastered the dialects of the body.”

World Soul Body Rhythm Dialect Outer Worlds

Book:The Politics of Ecstasy

Source: The Politics of Ecstasy

“I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There is something deep and mysterious in the voice when it isn't too high-pitched American.”

Bits Voice Coaches Mysterious Accents Dialect Dialect Coach

Author:Archie Panjabi

“Modern biblical scholars have established that the bible is a wiki. It was compiled over half a millennium from writers with different styles, dialects, character names, and conceptions of God and was subjected to haphazard editing that left it with many contradictions, duplications and non-sequiturs.”

Different Character Religion Names Left Half Modern Style Contradiction Conception Scholar Biblical Editing Millennium Dialect Different Styles Haphazard Duplication

Book:The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

Source: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

“I speak a little bit of Italian, yeah. I understand more than I speak. I speak more of a dialect; my mum's from Naples and my dad's from Sicily, so it comes out little a bit of a cocktail of the Italian language.”

Littles Speak Language Bits Dad Little Bit Yeah My Dad Italian Mum Cocktails Dialect Naples

Author:Luke Pasqualino

“Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the richest dialects in Chinese.”

Five Nine Chinese Tone Dialect Versatile

Author:David Tang

“However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.”

Years Important Different Found Becoming Research African American Features Dialect Vernacular

Author:William Labov

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

Years Wells Has Beens Hundred Dialect

Author:William Labov

“Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not care for anything properly said.”

Persons Said Care Language Communication Mediums Admirable Dialect Slang

Book:Ponkapog papers: A sea turn, and other papers

Source: Ponkapog papers: A sea turn, and other papers

“In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for thought and mechanical learning for the true dialect of the living quest for truth by discourse and conversation.”

Writing Culture Worst Media Conversation Substitutes Quests Discourse Plato Arrivals Dialect New Arrivals

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Looks Struggle Heard Broads Accents Recognise Dialect Scots Gist

Author:Ralph Fiennes

“In college, I went to school for acting; we had to learn phonetics just to be able to do dialects and all that stuff. I'm somebody who does better just hearing it. I'll just imitate it, and I get it better that way. When I know too much information, I'm not great.”

Knows Way Doe Able School Stuff Acting Too Much Information College Hearing Dialect Too Much Information Phonetics

Author:Eliza Coupe

“Each dancer has a different dialect that they speak.”

Different Speak Dancer Dialect

Author:Jon M. Chu

“My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costume fitting. But the director figured, why not shoot it, too? So they threw me into a dress that didn't fit, gave me lines I hadn't seen, in a dialect I didn't know, and two screaming, arching infants.”

Knows Firsts Two Lines Fit Directors Dresses Why Not Costumes Infant Fitting Virginia Dialect

Author:Mamie Gummer

“When I was doing theater for all those years in New York, I did a lot of classical theater, wearing big corsets and big dresses and doing dialects. It's interesting that once I moved to TV, I'm playing these scrappy, contemporary toughies.”

Years Bigs Interesting New York Tvs Theater Dresses Moved Contemporary Dialect Corsets

Author:Mireille Enos

“My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.”

Ifs Done Whole Jobs Deals Fool Locals Accents Dialect

Author:Brion James