Linguistic Degradation Quotes

The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the "democratic" lev-elers. It comes also from above, from the fancy jar-gonmongers, idle game players, fashionable coteries for second-rate intellectuals.

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

I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.

I'm a teacher and a writer; my life is words. When I see the denigration of language, it hurts me, and it's easy to denigrate a word by trivializing it.

When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation. For what do terms used without skill or meaning, which are at once corrupt and misapplied, denote but a people listless, supine, and ripe for servitude?

Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them; and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united.

Their talk was endless, compulsive, and indulgent, sometimes sounding like the remains of the English language after having been hashed over by nuclear war survivors for a few hundred years.

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.

Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English.