#english language

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#english language #imagination #itself #language #nobody

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#both #composition #dialect #english #english language

I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities. ↗

— William Labov

#america #both #changes #communities #completing

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. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#come #country #custodians #driven #english

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity. ↗

— John McGahern

#dead #english #english language #everything #gaelic

You know, we have main English language parties, federalist parties, and traditionally the ones to watch would be the Conservatives, who form the government, and then the Liberals. ↗

— Rick Mercer

#english #english language #federalist #form #government

Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#american cinema #because #case #cinema #coming

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings. ↗

— Alex Cox

#english #english language #greatest #his #language

More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor. ↗

— John W. Vessey, Jr.

#battlefield #because #been #english #english language

If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless. ↗

— John Hume

#english language #ian #language #paisley #removed