Colloquial Speech Quotes

Heath Slater, or the chick from Wendy's

I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.

Black English is something which - it's a natural system in itself. And even though it is a dialect of English, it can be very difficult for people who don't speak it, or who haven't been raised in it, to understand when it's running by quickly, spoken in particular by young men colloquially to each other. So that really is an issue.

You know it’s them books what make you talk funny.

I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation.

You might be a redneck if you think that the styrofoam cooler is the greatest invention of all time.

I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage.

Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.

The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.

The language of the street is always strong.

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.

I had family in Carolina who were very hood and talked differently in this sort of Southern cadence.

When my works are being translated, I always get this question from my translators: Up or down? Which means, should it sound biblical and highbrow, or should we take it all down to sound colloquial? In Hebrew, it's both all the time. People in Israel would write in a high register, they wouldn't write colloquial speech. I do a special take on colloquial speech.

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