Standard Colloquial Bengali

Famous quotes containing the words standard and/or colloquial:

    “Where shall we look for standard English but to the words of a standard man?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.”
    —Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)