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“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 quotes ( Poet, 1819-1892)
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“In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for thought and mechanical learning for the true dialect of the living quest for truth by disc”
Marshall McLuhan quotes (Canadian communications theorist Educator, Writer and Social Reformer, 1911-1980)
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“Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.”
Doris Lessing quotes (Persian born British Novelist and short-story Writer b.1919)

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“READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang. We know by one's reading His learning and breeding; By what draws his laughter We know his Hereafter. Read nothing, laugh never -- The Sphinx was less clever! --Jupiter Muke”
Ambrose Bierce quotes (American Writer, Journalist and Editor, 1842-1914) Book: Devil's Dictionary quotes

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“A language is a dialect that has an army and a navy”
Max Weinreich quotes

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“Dialect words those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel”
Thomas Hardy quotes (British Novelist and Poet who set much of his work in Wessex, an imaginary county in southwestern England. 1840-1928)

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“The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)

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“The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes (English lyrical Poet, Critic and Philosopher. 1772-1834)

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dialect synonyms: accent, idiom, idioms.

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