Regional Language Quotes

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.

I am more comfortable with Tamil than Hindi.

I watch a lot of Hindi films. I live in Hyderabad, where 60 per cent of the people speak Hindi.

I often have scripts sent to me with allegedly Scottish characters where I end up telling them, 'You're going to have to rethink this whole thing!'

Why, der language down dar in de far South is jus' as different from ours in Maryland, as you can think. Dey laughed when dey heard me talk, an' I could not understand 'dem, no how.

In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.

Place is so important to me. The Midwest is like a ghost in my life. It's present as I look out the window now. I see Texas, but if I close my eyes and look out the same window, I'm back in my hometown in Worthington, Minnesota, and I cherish those values and that diction.

Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different.

I am a pakka South Indian at heart.

We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.

Growing up, I would go to Darjeeling and Kurseong a lot and most of the locals would only talk to me in Nepali!

I'm happy that I know how to speak 'Southern.' I spent a lot of time in Alabama throughout my life. I even lived there for part of junior high and high school, so I learned the true beauty and mastery of the Southern dialect. 'Y'all' is one of the greatest and most useful words ever invented.

It had a language. It's a very emotional language that only exists in India, that part of [inaudible] so we wanted to use that. I had two versions - one with my voice and one with the girl's voice. But he preferred the girl's voice and he preferred my voice with an [inaudible].

As a nation we love our dialects, and there is a lot of regional variance in the names for different foods - barmcake, bap or bun anyone?

If my mom came to the sets, we would speak to her in Tulu, and no one would understand. That's an advantage when you know any South Indian language.

We loved the language in Cormac McCarthy's 'No Country,' which is really about the region, while in 'True Grit' it's more about period: people did speak more formally and floridly.

Remember: Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. All y'all's is plural possessive.

There are many Bollywood actresses who work in the South and speak Tamil or Malayalam, and though it is correct, we find it funny sometimes.

I studied in Kerala, so learnt to read and write Malayalam.

Good buildings make and are made by their settings, and they are appropriately different in different locations. Climate, culture, topography and materials have helped create regional architectural languages that seem curiously right for their locations and for all times.

The older I got, the more willing I was to go into the Southern vernacular, because some of it's funny.

I am born and brought up in Maharashtra so for me, Marathi is an often heard language.

In my book 'The Winter Sea,' set north of Aberdeen, I couldn't just ignore the fact some people there - especially the people in the past - would speak the Doric.

I grew up in Teesside and it is really important to keep your regional accent because it is a big part of who you are.

I love Punjabi Folk.