The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.
I hate using the word 'dark' for things that are negative.
I had forgotten that Jess felt about long words the way that racists feel about black people: She hated them, and wanted to send them back from where they came from.
language is never neutral
Isn't it interesting how men 'leave' their families, but women 'abandon' their children?
Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.
...language is never innocent.
I came to realize,people who had Chinese accents will continue to have Chinese accents in America are treated as being stupid or not as intelligent as an English speaker who is fluent with an American accent - I came to realize why. But it's always fascinated me how quickly you can change where you stand with another human being just based on how you speak.
I, of course, don't have an accent. This is just how things sound when they are pronounced properly.
The classical scholars have kept alive the tradition of the superiority of the ancient languages -- a kaleidoscopic mass of suffixes and prefixes, supposed to represent an infinite shading of meaning. It is a character they share with the Ojibway and the Zulu.
Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.
I don't understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have.
There's sometimes an accent on TV and it's like 'are you American?', because I can kind of pick up on it a little bit and I never want to be in that position.
Accents are funny in that they have this odd draw for us, yet we forget we have one, too. No one is without an accent, but the one you’ve got seems like oatmeal to their caviar.
There's something very polite about the British accents. It's sort of sanitizing.
Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.
Language mavens commonly confuse their own peeves with a worsening of the language.
Many Americans feel themselves inferior in the presence of anyone with an English accent, which is why an English accent has become fashionable in television commercials; it is thought to sound authoritative.
The verbs that are used for people who write quickly are almost never flattering.
Why should you use a term [rebels] in the United States and England and maybe other countries and use another term in Syria ? This is a double standard that we don't accept.
Certainly people have said a lot of deeply unfortunate and stupid things in Southern accents, but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the accent itself.
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
I always wonder about the word 'intense.' 'Intense' is used to describe women. Guys are intense, but they don't get described that way.
The racism in South Asia is the most specific racism in the world. It's like racism against a slightly different language group. It's like micro-racism.
It is wrong to judge a person based on the language they know.
