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Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy read more
When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.
Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.
Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Don Chaucer. well of English undefyled
On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.
Don Chaucer. well of English undefyled
On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.