Quotes by Dialect Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read your work and rave about your use of dialect, go for it. But be positive that you do it well, because otherwise it is a lot of work to read short stories or novels that are written in dialect. It makes our necks feel funny. Anne Lamott dialectbeing-positivewriting My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job. Brion James dialectdonejobs I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was. Callan McAuliffe dialectaccentsrespectable If someone said, I want to translate your novel into Igbo, I would say, Go ahead. But when I write in the Igbo language, I write my own dialect. I write some poetry in that dialect. Chinua Achebe dialectwantwriting From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves. Christopher Moore dialecthip-hopway In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already his style. Criss Jami dialectphilosophicalstyle English has a better way with colloquialisms. It has colloquialisms that are colorful and expressive but not too heavy or distracting. In German, if you use colloquialisms, it quickly descends into some kind of dialect literature. Daniel Kehlmann dialectliteratureuse At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects. David Crystal dialectkaleidoscopestyle There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact - in its Orwellian substitution of the euphemisms of social equality for social equality itself - of vastly more help to conservatives and the US status quo than traditional SNOOT prescriptions ever were. David Foster Wallace dialectreformfacts Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the richest dialects in Chinese. David Tang dialectchinesenine No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try. David Sedaris dialectwritingtrying Always, in epochs when the languages and dialects of a culture have become outstripped by development of a practical sort, these languages become repetitive, formalised -- and ridiculous. Phrases, words, associations of sentences spin themselves out automatically, but have no effect: they have lost their power, their energy. Doris Lessing dialectdevelopmentassociation So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born. Emily Carr dialectsilencesound I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. Emily Carr dialectdifferenthalf Each culture might lend its own dialect, but above all that is the language of music itself, and it doesn't care about politics or boundaries. Geoff Zanelli dialectcareculture When you get to speak Irish, you become more at one with yourself, you kind of have a spark when you use it, and I think it's a great dialect. Glenn Quinn dialectusethinking He [Barack Obama] was light-skinned with no Negro dialect. Harry Reid dialectdumblight The places I come from have such rich languages, such a variety of expression. In Sierra Leone we have about fifteen languages and three dialects. I grew up speaking about seven of them. Ishmael Beah dialectthreeexpression If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects. Jerry Garcia dialectpowerfulthinking Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect? Jodi Picoult dialectdifferentloss123»
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