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"Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing."
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"They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps."
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"Conundrum: A fun word to repeat over and over again when no one's listening. Actual meaning is as puzzling as the need to chant the word."
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"Jeez, Hazel," Percy said, "tell your horse to watch his language."Hazel tried not to laugh. "What did he say?""With the cussing removed? He said he can get us to the top."Frank looked incredulous. "I thought the horse couldn't fly!"This time Arion whinnied so angrily, even Hazel could guess he was cursing."Dude," Percy told the horse, "I've gotten suspended for saying less than that..."
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"NE'TWORK: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.......RETI'CULATED: Made of network; formed with interstitial vacuities."
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"In Sanskrit words are like living beings; depending on context, circumstance and environment their mood varies and meaning differs."
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"Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin."
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"It is ironic that the only thing separating 'friend' from 'fiend' - is a single letter."
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"The world is built with words."
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"Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, stompled, selfishism, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean."
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"There has to be new words to explain new worlds."
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"There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely."
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"But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement."
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"Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done."
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"Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing."
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"Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague."
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"In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility."
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"Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts."
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