Verbose is not a synonym for literary.
When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putt...
It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax, with the results of the researches that were going on in semantics and pragmatics. I believe that this effort has...
We write programs not because we understand the syntax but to solve a problem
I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.
Ils en conclurent que la syntaxe est une fantaisie et la grammaire une illusion.
My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.
Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.
The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.
The Internet "not food for thought, just chewing gum put out by people who know the vocabulary of thought but not it's syntax
Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy.
The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.
I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor translations... English from Edwardian times.
I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.
Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.
When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.
Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.
Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's sardonic tone is curiously at odds with its plodding syntax.'
It's hard to get motivated fixing a compile-time syntax error when you can buy a powder that turns a house into a monster.
I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilizat...
