"It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbours 800 years ago. They are destroying it: pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary. And they must be stopped."

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Source : "I h8 txt msgs: How texting is wrecking our language" by John Humphrys, www.dailymail.co.uk. September 24, 2007.

John Humphrys

#Vocabulary Quotes #Years Quotes #Messages Quotes

“Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.”
“If you sat down and you wrote a script, you may write something that's way beyond what you've ever seen me do, but if you thought of me to do it, I would be flattered to be asked to do something other than be wise.”
“A Jew cannot be a true patriot. He is something different, like a bad insect. He must be kept apart, out of a place where he can do mischief - even by pogroms, if necessary. The Jews are responsible for Bolshevism in Russia, and Germany too. I was far too indulgent with them during my reign, and I bitterly regret the favors I showed the prominent Jewish bankers.”
“Listen to the unstruck sounds, and what sifts through that music.”
“Dance allows confidence to grow and inhibitions to fall away, and I pride myself on building people's confidence.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid.”
“What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I think it is appropriate to ask whether this trend is compatible with values rooted in our nation's history, among them the high value Americans have traditionally placed on equality of opportunity.”

Source : "RPT-UPDATE 2-Citing U.S. values, Yellen says greatly concerned by rise in economic inequality". www.reuters.com. October 17, 2014.

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