Quotes about Language

The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not.

The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not.

The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.

Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture.

Ebonics is not a separate language. It is ghetto speech and substandard English. To claim that ebonics is a positive way of communicating for blacks is to condemn blacks to menial jobs and economic inferiority. A person who fails to learn correct language skills is forever handicapped in seeking employment.

political correctness jeopardizes more than it should the human capacity to speak the truth

The Word ought to be exposed in the words

The area of the Church stands in the world, as outwardly the Church stands in the village or in a city, beside the school, the cinema and the railway station. The Church's language cannot aim at being an end in itself. It must be made clear that the Church exists for the sake of the world, that the light is shining in the darkness.

No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words.

Only a very dull man spells a word the same way twice.

Stay out of the gutter in your conversation. Foul talk defiles the man who speaks it.

S'pose a man was to come to you and say Pollyvoo-franzy - what would you think?