List Of Dialect Quotes

From Dickens's Cockneys To Salinger's Phonies, From Kerouac's Beatniks To Cheech And Chong's Freaks, And On To Hip Hop's Homies, Dialect Has Always Been Used As A Way For Generations To Distinguish Themselves.

Was There A Language Of Loss? Did Everyone Who Suffered Speak A Different Dialect?

I Had A Dialect Coach To Get An American Accent, And Then Another Dialect Coach To Come Off It A Bit. There Is Something Deep And Mysterious In The Voice When It Isn't Too High-pitched American.

I Guess I'd Always Mocked The American Accent. I Didn't Consider It A Respectable Dialect, But I Was Told That It Was.

When I Am Playing A Role Far Away From Me With An Accent That Is Not Mine I Always Employ A Dialect Coach. I Am Almost Always Playing Someone That Has An Accent That Is Not Mine.

He [barack Obama] Was Light-skinned With No Negro Dialect.

No One Writes Dialect Better Than Flannery O'connor. No One Should Even Try.

I Am Very Good With Dialects, But The Two That I Can't Do For Some Reason Are The South African And Australian.

Always, In Epochs When The Languages And Dialects Of A Culture Have Become Outstripped By Development Of A Practical Sort, These Languages Become Repetitive, Formalised -- And Ridiculous. Phrases, Words, Associations Of Sentences Spin Themselves Out Automatically, But Have No Effect: They Have Lost Their Power, Their Energy.

One Cannot Understand The Rhythms And Meanings Of The Outer World Until One Has Mastered The Dialects Of The Body.

Dialogue That Is Written In Dialect Is Very Tiring To Read. If You Can Do It Brilliantly, Fine. If Other Writers Read Your Work And Rave About Your Use Of Dialect, Go For It. But Be Positive That You Do It Well, Because Otherwise It Is A Lot Of Work To Read Short Stories Or Novels That Are Written In Dialect. It Makes Our Necks Feel Funny.

Well, American Dialects Have Been Studied For A Hundred Years Or So.