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)

    “The two most beautiful words in the English language are “check enclosed.””
    —Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)