Language
- California slang, slang used in California English, or which originates in California
- U.S. Navy slang, a glossary at Wiktionary
- African American Vernacular English, a source of American slang words
- The Historical Dictionary of American Slang, the most comprehensive and thoroughly researched dictionary of American slang and the only American slang dictionary prepared entirely on historical principles
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Famous quotes containing the word language:
“It is silly to call fat people “gravitationally challenged”Ma self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.”
—Terry Eagleton (b. 1943)
“Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages. Syntactic investigation of a given language has as its goal the construction of a grammar that can be viewed as a device of some sort for producing the sentences of the language under analysis.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)
“Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)