"No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut."

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"Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

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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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"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."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words."

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"I want to hear you wound my lovely language with your rough barbarian tongue."

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"Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies."

"Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling."

"A lexicographer a writer of dictionaries a harmless drudge."

"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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"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."

"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."

"The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words."

"Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them."

"I want to hear you wound my lovely language with your rough barbarian tongue."

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"If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is."

"Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time."

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