What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.
We are from many nations. We speak different languages. We look and dress different. But we are united in Christ Jesus.
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy.
This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.
that your power of command with simple language was one of the magnificent things of our century. (from the poem: result)
I ended up doing four or five plays in college and being an English major with my thesis in language acquisition, which I was planning to study in graduate school.
I'd defend the right for any novelist to experiment with form or language, but if people don't take to it, don't react by making out that they are thick.
Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved.
If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.
Dare to dream again. For dreaming is the language of your soul, And nothing your soul truly desires could ever be wrong or impossible.
Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.
Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.
I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.
I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
Just as he was slowly bringing order to his own internal life, he would also bring order to his language.
Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster.
