I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, 'Looks like you're writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you'll get more money.'
You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid.
When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was 'It will be O.K.' I would wonder, 'How the hell is it going to be O.K.?' The worst word in the English language is 'hope.'
Rappers are the white authors of our generation. They know me, my language, my codes, my family, my block.
I think if you work with different kinds of codes, attitudes, in the end you have a language. It's like within a person. You are not always the same.
We think coding should be required in every school because it's as important as any kind of second language.
It is absolutely unacceptable to talk to Russia - or anyone for that matter - in the language of ultimatums and coercive measures.
I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that they tapped into a fundamental distinction in language processing, indeed in cognitive processing, between memory lookup and rule-driven computation.
I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.
Malcolm X found the language that communicated across the board, from college professor to floor sweeper, all at the same time, without demeaning the intellect of either.
The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial.
Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.
I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.
In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist.
Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
I think U.S. and Chinese businesses need a common language and dialogue.
We have found that companies need to speak a common language because some of the suggested ways to harness disruptive innovation are seemingly counterintuitive. If companies don't have that common language, it is hard for them to come to consensus on a counterintuitive course of action.
Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
Growing up in a family of actors, what's great about it is that they're very supportive and they understand what it's like to be an actor - the rejections, the highs and lows... and having a common language with them is great because you have shorthand speech.
Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.
