#mma

Love and translation look alike in their grammar. To love someone implies transforming their words into ours. Making an effort to understand the other person and, inevitably, to misinterpret them. To construct a precarious language together. ↗

— Andrés Neuman

#language #love #lovers #relationships #translation

Hearts melt when the Beloved of Allah is mentioned. ↗

— Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf

#god #hearts #islam #love #prophet-muhammad

The Grocery Checkout Proviso: The more things you care about, the more vulnerable you are. If you are part of that epicurean minority in this country that is still offended by violations of the English language, you will be slapped in the face every time you stand in line at the market. FIFTEEN ITEMS OR LESS. Caring passionately about grammar—caring passionately about anything most of humanity doesn’t care about—is like poking a giant hole in your life and letting the wind blow everything around. ↗

— Rachel Kadish

#grammar #life

And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#grammar #grammar-humor #humor #humour #science-fiction

Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can't walk to the bathroom. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#grammar-humor #humor #humor

She had been a teenager once, and she knew that, despite the apparent contradictions, a person's teenage years lasted well into their fifties. ↗

— Derek Landy

#humor #humorous #immaturity #teenagers #teens

Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday. ↗

— Mark Twain

#humor #writing #humor

That Grace looked annoyed at me. "I didn't say you would go to jail, Junie B.," she said. "I just wish you would say the word correctly, that's all. ↗

— Barbara Park

#humor #humor

Meanwhile, back at reality..."- G.Lucas ↗

— Robert Lynn Asprin

#humor #humor

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one. ↗

— Baltasar Gracián

#grammar #speech #spelling #synonyms #vocabulary