Language Tone Quotes

It's not what you say, but how you say it!

The public discourse online is not done through the polite language of debate.

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

Anyone that was raised with a Germanic language will agree that our tone is strong, especially once translated into English.

But then again maybe "I will" is nicer. It has a future in it.

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

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 easy way to make your texts sexier? Lose the question marks.