Famous quotes containing the words language and/or class:
“This is of the loonI do not mean its laugh, but its looning,is a long-drawn call, as it were, sometimes singularly human to my ear,hoo-hoo-ooooo, like the hallooing of a man on a very high key, having thrown his voice into his head. I have heard a sound exactly like it when breathing heavily through my own nostrils, half awake at ten at night, suggesting my affinity to the loon; as if its language were but a dialect of my own, after all.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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Ultimately its all a matter of style. What it comes down to is this: Do you spell Jennifer with a J or G? Thats a class division. As a populist, Im all for G.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)