“Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It’s a language aside from the language they have with strangers. I’ve always been maybe an abuser of alliteration, but I’ve always loved it and I like how those words sound together.” UseTogetherLanguageSoundWifeStrangerCodeGirlfriendAbusersAlliteration Author:Ben Gibbard
“Jokes spread around the world and embed themselves in our shared culture; the most resonant of them get lodged in the language in the same way as clichés or old wives' tales do.” WorldWayCultureLanguageWifeJokesSpreadTalesAround The WorldOld Wives Tales Book:Only Joking: What's So Funny About Making People Laugh? Source: Only Joking: What's So Funny About Making People Laugh?
“Despite all the videos you see from the Ministry of Defence or the Pentagon, and all the sanitised language describing smart bombs and pinpoint strikes, the scene on the ground has remained remarkably the same for hundreds of years. Craters. Burned houses. Mutilated bodies. Women weeping for children and husbands. Men for their wives, mothers children.” MenYearsChildrenWarBodyMotherHouseLanguageWifeSceneHusbandSmartStrikesVideoDespiteBombsMinistryBurnedWeepingDefenceDescribingPentagonMother ChildCratersWife Mother Author:Marie Colvin