“It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance of desertification following upon monocultural commodity production, the clear-cutting of written and spoken English.” SaidPastHalfClearCuttingWrittenProductionsFollowingDecadesInstanceTragicCommodityVocabularyClear CuttingSpoken English Book:Epicurean Simplicity Source: Epicurean Simplicity
“Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring is termed a new animal, but it is in truth a branch or elongation of the parent; since a part of the embryon-animal is, or was, a part of the parent; and therefore in strict language it cannot be said to be entirely new at the time of its production; and therefore it may retain some of the habits of the parent-system. (1794)” MaySaidLanguageParentAnimalEvolutionHabitProductionsBranchesImperfectionStrictOffspringOwing Book:Zoonomia; or, The laws of organic life ... Source: Zoonomia; or, The laws of organic life ...
“When I've produced a song, I try to record a vocal over it, and sometimes it becomes really hard. Sometimes I've already said a lot that I want to say within the production. The vocal is just adding to it, rather than it being a song.” WantTryingSaidSometimesHardSongRecordsProductionsOver ItVocal Author:Sampha