Russell Baker Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.

  Russell Baker

  Writing, Play, Roles

• Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.

  Russell Baker

  Dream, Escaping, Dozen

• Long words, fat talk they may tell us something about ourselves. Has the passion for fat in the language increased as self-confidence has waned?

  Russell Baker

  Passion, Self Confidence, Long

  Russell Baker (1983). “So This Is Depravity”, Pocket Books

• The young cult of sociology, needing a language, invented one. There are many dead languages, but the sociologists' is the only language that was dead at birth.

  Russell Baker

  Language, Birth, Sociology

  Russell Baker (2014). “So This is Depravity”, p.285, Diversion Books

• Most English speakers do not have the writer's short fuse about seeing or hearing their language brutalized. This is the main reason, I suspect, that English is becoming the world's universal tongue: English-speaking natives don't care how badly others speak English as long as they speak it. French, once considered likely to become the world's lingua franca, has lost popularity because those who are born speaking it reject this liberal attitude and become depressed, insulted or insufferable when their language is ill used.

  Russell Baker

  Attitude, Speak English, Long

  Russell Baker (1990). “There's a country in my cellar”, William Morrow & Company

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