Official English

Famous quotes containing the words official and/or english:

    All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.
    Roland Barthes (1915–1980)

    But it was alway yet the trick of our English nation, if they
    have a good thing, to make it too common.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)