"The initial 18th-, 19th-century intention was to give the less-educated lower classes a way to move up into this new, rising middle class, to enable them to fit in. So our view of language as being class-based is an unintended consequence of the drive to help educate rising businessmen."

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Kory Stamper

#Moving Quotes #Giving Quotes #Helping Quotes

“The bullied straight kid goes home to a shoulder to cry on and support and can talk freely about his experience at school and why he's being bullied. I couldn't go home and open up to my parents.”
“If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.”
“When I'm about to start writing, I pull up some of my all-time-favorite re-reads to feel inspired and fall headfirst into the world of beautiful words.”
“I don't want to hear what the price of meat is.”
“I'm a bit of a fraud, really, as I didn't study acting at a drama school.”
“Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.”
“I'm terrified that I will never be able to put him from my mind. I don't love him but I'm afraid that he will make it impossible for me ever to love anyone else.”
“I believe that you must be madly in love with cinema to create films. You also need a huge cinematic baggage.”

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