Linguistic Corruption Quotes

Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain.

We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.

It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.

It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its purpose! For when language is seriously interfered with, when it is disjoined from truth, be it from mere incompetence or worse, from malice, horrors can descend again on mankind.

Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.

The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.

A cliché is dead matter. It causes gangrene in the prose around it, and sooner or later it eats your brain.