Linguistic Deterioration Quotes

Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.

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

Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness atrophies.

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.

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

Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.

We are talking. It's a shame. What is said is murdered. Our words that will not grow any bigger or any lovelier will wilt inside our bones. Words wither feelings.

I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly.

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?

When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings