Vocabulary Limitation Quotes

I do rap and speak in Malayalam but only to save my life as my vocabulary in the language is not as good as it is in Hindi.

I find vocabulary to be a great drawback.

Everyone knows English is my second language and my vocabulary is not as broad as it is in Spanish, and because of this, sometimes I use the wrong words to express myself.

...All my best words are deserters and do not answer the trumpet call, and the remainder are cripples.

I can get by and chatter and talk and tell funny stories, make people laugh, but I don't have as many words, I don't have the vocabulary. I think if I forced myself to read in Spanish - you know, I always say I'm going to, but I lose my patience reading in Spanish, because I really do read the way a third grader does, mouthing the words. That takes a long time!

Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.

I was probably just trying to be Dennis Miller, but without the vocabulary to actually be Dennis Miller. I guess I was just less interesting than I am now, if I am interesting at all.

My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. If I really knew this language, there would surely be in my head, as there is in Webster's or the Dictionary of American Slang, that unreducible verb designed to tell a person like me what to do next.

My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.

How could this world be so unlike the world that I believed I was living in? I can't describe it. Do I not want to describe it, or do I simply not possess the vocabulary?

In German, there are only so many things you can write about.