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"Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies."
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"Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling."
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"A lexicographer a writer of dictionaries a harmless drudge."
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"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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"We, Brandy and Alfa and me, we've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.I have no native tongue."
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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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"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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"The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words."
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"Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them."
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"I want to hear you wound my lovely language with your rough barbarian tongue."
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"Never assume the obvious is true."
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"If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing."
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"The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right."
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"Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight."
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"Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague."
Originality
"Have a definite opinion."
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"Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care."
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