Dialect Quotes

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Obama a ‘light-skinned’ African-American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.

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

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

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

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

When students write from experience, they can breathe those specifics into their writing- dialect, odd smells, precise names of plants- that can animate even the most tired and tedious text.

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.

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

What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.

It's like a puzzle, putting together your individual accent and what you grew up with or what you heard. It must be insane to be a dialect coach, to balance all that out.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought these people out.

READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang.

The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to.

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

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.

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

Each dancer has a different dialect that they speak.

A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.

The places I come from have such rich languages, such a variety of expression. In Sierra Leone we have about fifteen languages and three dialects. I grew up speaking about seven of them.

I grew up being fascinated by accents and dialects. One of the things that interested me were actors that were doing different characters, or sort of more caricatures.

If someone said, I want to translate your novel into Igbo, I would say, Go ahead. But when I write in the Igbo language, I write my own dialect. I write some poetry in that dialect.

I am black, so with my writing and my voice, you get that kind of dialect.

I'm good with dialect. Some actors do it immediately; other actors never quite get it. It's something I've always really enjoyed and something I've always been pretty fast with.

I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian.

I am lucky to have been gifted with a good ear and the ability to mimic. If I can hear it... I can replicate it, whether it's a dialect or just matching the tone of someones voice.

Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not care for anything properly said.

I went to a dialect coach and she told me that I had five problems; two were my Israeli accent and three were my New Jersey accent. I don't even want to know what I sounded like back then!

I keep to a minimum dialect, in-jokes about football (soccer) teams and soap opera characters, so as not to lose North American readers.

French was the only language we had in common, and even that was like a dialect we had picked up at a rummage sale, rusty and missing a lot of essential parts.

Welsh is now almost a national language in Wales. The Scottish dialects are reviving to some extent. I don't think it's a major thing, but it's there, and it's happening elsewhere.

I had a really fantastic dialect coach that I worked very well with, and I was constantly surprised by the different intonations that the Russian dialect has.

When you use a dialect, you worry that the people you're imitating will think you're making fun of them.

When using dialect, use it lightly. A dialect word here and there is enough. All you want to do is suggest. Never let it call attention to itself.

Each culture might lend its own dialect, but above all that is the language of music itself, and it doesn't care about politics or boundaries.

Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the richest dialects in Chinese.

When I am playing a role far away from me with an accent that is not mine I always employ a dialect coach. I am almost always playing someone that has an accent that is not mine.

You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles that we have in our mouths and faces and tongues.

In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already his style.

I don't have a Jersey dialect. So when I approached the singing, I approached it the same way as an actor I approach a dialect, just as a singer.

I approach the singing kind of like with dialect thoughts in my mind. I have to sound like this on certain things to give that Frankie Valli flavor.