My new play 'Chinglish,' which will go to Broadway, is about a white American businessman who goes to a provincial capital in China, hoping... →
David Henry Hwang
It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.
Douglas Hyde
I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried.
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... →
John McGahern
I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important... →
Groups like the NAACP, The Anti-Defamation League, NOW and GLAAD, will respond to derisive language directed at their constituents. The price paid by... →
John C. McGinley
All language is a popularity contest.
Erin McKean
Language is a nice way to remember things.
Lexicographers are language reporters.
Twitter has already birthed an entire ecosystem of other sites that extend its power or interact with it. But Twitter isn't just a platform for... →