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"Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague."
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"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."
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"English is not merely a language anymore, it has become a way of life for millions of non-native English speakers around the world."
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"Percy, we're going to Polyphemus' island! Polyphemus is an S-i-k...a C-y-k..." She stamped her foot in frustration. As smart as she was, Annabeth was dyslexic, too. We could've been there all night while she tried to spell Cyclops. "You know what I mean!"
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"He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps the people of Babel did in the beginning), so to crush them together that a brand new word in the end drops out."
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"Aye, aye, that's the way wi' thee: thee allays makes a peck o' thy own words out o' a pint o' the Bible's."
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"Every language has its own word for the sun, but the sun us always the same."
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"It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word."
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"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."
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"Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other."
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"Where do the words gowhen we have said them?"
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"Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague."
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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."
History
"Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing."
Language
"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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"There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely."
Language
"Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts."
Character
"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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