Language Versatility Quotes

Hindi has never been a trouble. In fact, Hindi is the only language I can speak and write apart from Malayalam and English.

I'm about as monolingual as you come, but nevertheless, I have a variety of different languages at my command, different styles, different ways of talking, which do involve different parameter settings.

Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft. The greater your vocabulary the more ­effective your writing. We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it.

English is a very expressive language.

Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.

The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.

If you're talking about industry, I've never restricted myself to Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, or Kannada. Whichever the language is, from Swahili to Marathi or Bhojpuri to Bengali, I would be happy to do it.

I do very well with English, and I think I should do that more and take advantage of the versatility I have. I can sing; I can play guitar.

Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.

I speak Dutch, German, French, and English and have acted in all of those languages, but I love the American experience.

You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.

I think my ideal man would speak many languages. He would speak Ibo and Yoruba and English and French and all of the others. He could speak with any person, even the soldiers, and if there was violence in their heart he could change it. He would not have to fight, do you see? Maybe he would not be very handsome, but he would be beautiful when he spoke. He would be very kind, even if you burned his food because you were laughing and talking with your girlfriends instead of watching the cooking. He would just say, 'Ah, never mind'.

We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it.