Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

quote by Doris Lessing
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I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

quote by Jean Rostand
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Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .

quote by Robert Smithson
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Fear Thou, Oh Nation

The warning, the alarms
Imminent danger looms the streets, the farms
Crying out loud for everyone to hear
Those things that should make the nation fear.

Fear not that the nation is diverse
It is an issue we cannot reverse
Fear not for varying ethnicity
The tower of Babel bears responsibility
Fear not the dissimilar languages you speak
Lingua franca will edge the prick
Fear not thou exogamy
True love might not be found in endogamy

But fear thou oh nation, the emotion
Of leaders who represent your notion
For they are in corruption engulfed
Money, not your interest loved
Fear thou oh nation, the war
Of people who protect your law

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poem by Anthony Seyi Abiodun
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The language with largest vocabulary

It has only seven letters
And has the largest vocabulary
There is no dearth
Of expression
For any situation or emotion
One same thing
Can mean a million things

King Solomon deciphered
Ants’ impression using this language
Indian mythology has it that
A much revered teacher
Taught all his disciples
Using this language
Clearing their all doubts
On any subject

It is not written
It is not spoken
It is not heard

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poem by Bashyam Narayanan
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I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another.

quote by John M. Smith
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I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.

quote by David Antin
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I have a good ear for languages.

quote by Harry Dean Stanton
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A Poem's Language

a poem has it's own language
if a poet uses the glamour of the language
in his poem...the language
would stand out
if a poet shows his versatality over the language
in his poem...the poet
would stand out
the poet and the language should
lose themselves in the poem...for
the poem to speak it's own language

poem by Samanyan Lakshminarayanan
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I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

quote by Emily Carr
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Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance.

quote by David Pratt
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"WHAT language is thine, O sea?" "The language of eternal question." "What language is thy answer, O sky? "The language of eternal silence."

aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.

quote by Roman Jakobson
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Sonnet: What Language to Learn?

To improve a man, languages are meant;
You learn a language that can feed you first;
Learn your mother-tongue to needed extent;
But drink one may only if it doth thirst!

Learn many tongues if you want to progress;
In India, all can’t speak a common tongue;
By knowing languages, you can impress;
But choose one, to talk and sing, from among.

Our Motherland is made of many states;
All Indians are my brothers and sisters;
Through languages, a nation integrates,
And love amidst fellowmen, it fosters!

Man, learn to converse with all your brothers;
Spreading love’s message is what next matters.

(9-29-2000)

poem by John Celes
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Ours is the age of substitutes instead of language, we have jargon instead of principles, slogans and instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.

quote by Eric Bentley
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I woke up find a rather noisy multi-lingual meeting going on. This was great as everyone could participate and even though everything had to be translated into about four different languages it never became boring. After a while the meeting broke up and everyone went for food.

quote by John Blair
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The poetic language is neither true nor false.

quote by Gabriel Aresti
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It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

quote by Robert Morgan
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Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.

quote by Eric Bentley
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Laughter is the language of the soul.

classic quote by Pablo Neruda
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