Dialect Quotes

I speak a little bit of Italian, yeah. I understand more than I speak. I speak more of a dialect; my mum's from Naples and my dad's from Sicily, so it comes out little a bit of a cocktail of the Italian language.

So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects.

If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.

A non-standard dialect is as valid communication system as the standard

From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves.

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect.

It was not by dialectic that it pleased God to save His people.

The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth

My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.

One cannot understand the rhythms and meanings of the outer world until one has mastered the dialects of the body.

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.

The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit.

When you get to speak Irish, you become more at one with yourself, you kind of have a spark when you use it, and I think it's a great dialect.

Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so.

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

Dialect or the speech of the people is capable of expressing whatever the people are.

I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian.

I find standard American the hardest. It really fits in a different place in your mouth. Southern, I find the easiest. If you talk to a dialect coach and you get sort of technical, where an English person keeps their voice in their throat, a Southern person does the same, and it's got the same sort of music to talking.

Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them.

Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?

He [Barack Obama] was light-skinned with no Negro dialect.

No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try.

There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact - in its Orwellian substitution of the euphemisms of social equality for social equality itself - of vastly more help to conservatives and the US status quo than traditional SNOOT prescriptions ever were.

I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There is something deep and mysterious in the voice when it isn't too high-pitched American.