Orson Scott Card Quotes on Language
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I speak to everyone in the language they understand. That isn't being slick. It's being clear
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He luxuriated in the sound of high language well spoken.
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When people say perhaps its cause they're lying. Either they don't believe the thing they're saying, or they do believe it only they don't want to admit they do
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The word does not exist, except in the mouths of those who are pretending to be educated but in fact are not
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Oops, I thought. Oops is an all-purpose word standing for every bit of profanity, blasphemy, and pornographic and scatological execration I could think of.
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What do you mean, 'ah'? Just 'ah.' does every 'ah' have to mean something?
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At last I was able to explain that I hadn't understood the implications of my statement in their language, that I was transliterating and certain words had different meanings and so on and so on
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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.