Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.
Cursing is heavily used in the Irish language. It's not a stretch for me, and I have no qualms about it. It doesn't fall far from the real me.
When you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you later.
When the Warriors are on, my wife keeps away from me. I'm a rabid fan, and my language sometimes is not too good.
The two biggest legacies of the Raj are the unification of India and the English language. Moreover, without the railways, India would not have been connected and could not have become one country.
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.
Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.
There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.
When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.
Britain's fascination with its changing language is renowned.
One thing I've learned - and I've said this to Republicans and Democrats - is, bees cannot sting and make honey at the same time. They have to make a choice. Either they are going to be a stinger or a honey-maker, and I contend that honey is a symbol of legislation and, the nuclear language used by members is the stinger, and you can't do both.
The death of a language. The word has the same kind of reluctant resonance as it has when we talk about the death of a person. And indeed, that's how it should be. For that's how it is. A language dies only when the last person who speaks it dies.
The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.
There has been this resurgence in anti-LGBT language in the U.K. and the U.S., and the rest of the world. In the U.S. we've heard it with Trump's rise. Here, I've heard language borrowed from the most conservative anti-gay voices in the U.S. used by some gay and lesbian people against trans people.
Like dancers with choreography or actors with scripts, jazz singers could take material that was known, even loved, then risk interpreting and revising it. They could conceal even as they revealed themselves. Inflection, timing and tonality were their language, at least as much as words.
Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!
I've always loved rhyming. I love language.
I love the right words. I think economy and precision of language are important.
The challenge of a president himself struggling to find the conjunction between the right words and honest expression, a use of language that respects intellect, truth, and sincerity, has largely been abandoned.
