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Margaret Atwood

"Where do the words gowhen we have said them?"

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"Where do the words gowhen we have said them?"

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Donna Grant

"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."

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"'Mean to' don't pick no cotton."

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"If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend."

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Donna Grant

"Putting it into words will destroy any meaning."

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Donna Grant

"Why people use "Was" I have heard some people to say "I was a smart kid at school - Eminem", but why "Was", was is a word for describing the past... which will mean that has started and ended... so what??? How to get it now? You aren't wise, are you?"

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Donna Grant

"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."

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Donna Grant

"Kitai blinked slowly. "Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous.""We have a lot of words like that," Tavi said. "They can mean more than one thing.""That is stupid," Kitai said. "It is difficult enough to communicate without making it more complicated with words that mean more than one thing."

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Donna Grant

"We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters."

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Donna Grant

"Language is a tool for communicating and not a barrier to writing."

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Donna Grant

"Most of the people who have verbally asserted that 'there is no master of pronounciation' have intentionally made a claim and unintentionally made their claim believable. (It is 'pro-nun-ciation' not 'pro-noun-ciation'.)"

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