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England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

As Luxenberg's work has only recently been published we must await its scholarly assessment before we can pass any judgements. But if his analysis is correct then suicide bombers, or rather prospectiv...

Language Definition

(n.) Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the throat and mouth.

(n.) The expression of ideas by writing, or any other instrumentality.

(n.) The forms of speech, or the methods of expressing ideas, peculiar to a particular nation.

(n.) The characteristic mode of arranging words, peculiar to an individual speaker or writer; manner of expression; style.

(n.) The inarticulate sounds by which animals inferior to man express their feelings or their wants.

(n.) The suggestion, by objects, actions, or conditions, of ideas associated therewith; as, the language of flowers.

(n.) The vocabulary and phraseology belonging to an art or department of knowledge; as, medical language; the language of chemistry or theology.

(n.) A race, as distinguished by its speech.

(v. t.) To communicate by language; to express in language.

Music is the Universal Language that allows all people to communicate with each other.

And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who...

The language, feminine desires to speak, and her first phrase to express her love to him - *blush*

The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.

To creative people, the compendium of the white man's dialect are unfashionable, because their creations are more than what the tongue could say.

You are my other self

A local phrase book, entitled , has the following handy expressions. In the section 'On the Way to the Hotel': 'Let's Mutilate US Imperialism!' In the section 'Word Order': 'Yankees are wolves in huma...

This is an odd one. You have one country in the world where a word has a deeper meaning, it can really mess with design plans. ...But we have a difficult situation here so I guess we'll be looking at...

To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.

We are one at the root - we just part at the branch

The language of sword is less powerful than the language of word, but most ofthe people understand the language of sword with greater power than thelanguage of word.

The writing style which is most natural for you is bound to echo the speech you heard when a child. English was the novelist Joseph Conrad's third language, and much of that seems piquant in his use o...

Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.

If this constant sliding and hiding of meaning were true of conscious life, then we would of course never be able to speak coherently at all. If the whole of language were present to me when I spoke,...

My parents' marriage, to my unforgiving nineteen-year-old eye, was a car crash of cliché. Though I would have to admit, as the one making the judgement, that a 'car crash of of cliché' is itself a cli...

A good story or a book is all about it's power to hold it's readers still till the very last word of it's climax - complexity in language, dialogues, descriptions, everything else is secondary!

Finality is not the language of politics.

On the whole I try to keep Modesty and Willie in timeless settings, which is why I avoid all the latest slang and in-words. It won't be long before 'brill' sounds as dated as 'super' does now. [Uncle...