Modern Language Quotes

Modern language must be older than the cave paintings and cave engravings and cave sculptures and dance steps in the soft clay in the caves in Western Europe, in the Aurignacian Period some 35,000 years ago, or earlier. I can't believe they did all those things and didn't also have a modern language.

Trying to keep up with current slang sucks.

I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or 'literary' diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive.

I can fluently speak five languages: English, emoji, sexting, sarcasm and sass.

It seems inconceivable that a species of human could possess fully modern language and not be fully modern in all other ways, too. For this reason, the evolution of language is widely judged to be the culminating event in the emergence of humanity as we know it today.

I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.

Can you keep up with the lingo

A lot has changed due to the rise of smartphones and the proliferation of social media: today, visual content is the language of our time.

It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.

Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

I use 'wicked' all the time! It's part of my slang! When something's really rad, I'm like, 'That's wicked.' It has many meanings but worldwide, it seems like young people think it alludes to being either the naughtier side of you, or the trendier, cool side of you. I like it either way.

I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the journals of 18th-century seafarers lately, and even the lowliest press-ganged deck-swabber turns a finer phrase than I do most days.