The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.
The Canadian dialect of English . . . seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary.
If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
Yiddish has a down-to-earth quality that makes it remote from high-flown rhetoric, and it has a catch-as-catch-can charm derived from its stunning variety-of syntax, spelling, pronunciation, and vocabulary-from region to region.
The use of the high level language made each programmer a factor of 5 to 10 more productive in a coding sense and more concerned with the semantics than the syntax of modules.
since feelings come first, who cares about the syntax of things?
There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
What makes sense is not law, syntax, rules or structure
