#ny

However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects. ↗

— William Labov

#african american #american #becoming #dialects #different

This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America. ↗

— William Labov

#african american #america #american #any #continental

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe? ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#gives #how #lovers #many #matter

She knows I'm her biggest fan, I cheer for her louder than anybody. ↗

— Nick Lachey

#biggest #cheer #fan #her #i

I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene. ↗

— Mercedes Lackey

#character #describing #everything #given #i

Very skinny women don't look beautiful in clothes. ↗

— Christian Lacroix

#clothes #look #skinny #very #women

Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#different #different kinds #grateful #him #i

Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#anything #certainly #first #i #know

The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice. ↗

— Lactantius

#being #come #declare #filled #god

Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#anything #much #ninety-nine #ninety-nine percent #percent