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)

“Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?”
—Alan Jay Lerner (1918–1986)