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Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.
John Steinbeck
Place
Republic
Been
Highest
Lad
Restored
Syntax
Has-Been
Learning the Italian was tough. I tried to really come at from a purist perspective, really learn the grammar, syntax and conjugations.
Timothee Chalamet
Learning
Perspective
Tough
Grammar
Come
Italian
Learn
Syntax
Tried
I Tried
Really
I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor translations... English from Edwardian times.
Sandra Cisneros
Poor
Strange
Language
Story
Books
Edwardian
English
Realize
Story Books
Syntax
Times
Translations
Those
Thought
Were
Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Who
Only
Weak
Vocabulary
Advertisement
English
Mastery
Minds
Mislead
Prefer
Sloppy
Syntax
Thank
Themselves
Uses
Weak Minds
Writer
His
Those
I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.
Daniel Day-Lewis
Great
Parents
Country
Language
Bless
Custodian
Driven
English
English Language
Finesse
Household
Sentence
Structure
Syntax
Well-Balanced
Come
Just
Them
Things
Us
Where
Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's sardonic tone is curiously at odds with its plodding syntax.'
Terry Eagleton
Like
Things
Literature
Say
Curiously
Ethnic
Metaphor
Odds
Plodding
Poem
Spot
Stereotype
Syntax
Tone
Apart
Many
Most
Pick
Students
Them
I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.
Eddie Huang
You
Want
Intelligent
Need
Academic
Prove
Syntax
I did an audiobook for 'Rough Crossings,' which I thought was one of the best books I had published. But it was an absolute embarrassment to read it. All these horrible mucked-up bits of syntax, over-the-top adjectives. I found myself editing it while reading. Alert listeners will notice the difference.
Simon Schama
Best
Myself
Editing
Will
Absolute
Adjectives
Alert
Bits
Embarrassment
Horrible
Listeners
Notice
Over-The-Top
Published
Rough
Syntax
Books
Did
Difference
Found
Had
Read
Reading
Thought
Which
While
When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.
Natasha Trethewey
Thinking
Start
More
Writing
Intuitive
Mathematical
Page
Poem
Rhythm
Sentences
Switch
Syntax
About
Actually
Being
Computer
Get
Hand
Less
Lines
Part
Point
Putting
Sense
The first phase of C was - really, it was two phases in short succession of, first, some language changes from B, really adding the type structure without too much change in the syntax, and doing the compiler. The second phase was slower; it all took place within a very few years, but it was a bit slower, so it seemed.
Dennis Ritchie
Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
Rachel Kushner
Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
Gordon W. Allport
Person
Himself
Violation
Each
Apparent
Idiom
Species
Syntax
Unto
I think there is no future whatsoever in 3D. It does nothing to the grammar and syntax or vocabulary of cinema. And you get fed up with it in exactly 3 minutes.
Peter Greenaway
Future
You
Think
Nothing
Fed
Fed Up
Grammar
No Future
Syntax
Vocabulary
Whatsoever
Cinema
Does
Exactly
Get
I Think
Minutes
Up
I like having a paperback original. And until literature catches up with the culture - the violence, language, syntax, compression, concision, complexity and diversity that the Internet offers - books still make sense.
David Shields
Culture
Internet
Diversity
Language
Complexity
Compression
Literature
Offers
Original
Paperback
Syntax
Books
Having
Like
Make
Sense
Still
Until
Up
Violence
And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing.
Jean M. Auel
Myself
You
Go
Beginning
Chapter
Clause
Pages
Syntax
Tweaking
Back
Changing
Couple
Different
How
Know
Maybe
Over
Putting
Reading
Sort
Start
Thing
Word
I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.
Frantz Fanon
Culture
Support
Speak
Language
Above
Ascribe
Assume
Basic
Civilization
Grasp
Importance
Phenomenon
Position
Syntax
Weight
Certain
Means
Use
What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses.
David Baker
Me
You
Way
Tools
Alphabet
Grammar
Scales
Syntax
Ulysses
Book
Does
Give
Give Me
Had
How
Learned
Regular
Same
Still
Tell
Write
Words do not necessarily make us moral. And there have been presidents before who have stumbled over syntax and looked foolish when the words they have been forced to speak have been their own. But Trump is uniquely stunted. A child listening to two of his speeches could reproduce a third without the use of a dictionary.
Howard Jacobson
The rhythmical unit of the syllable is at the back of all of it - the word, the phrase, the sentence, the syntax, the paragraph, and the way the heart moves when you read it.
Ali Smith
You
Heart
Way
Back
Moves
Paragraph
Phrase
Sentence
Syllable
Syntax
Unit
Read
Word
Obama's gift for delivering set-piece oratorical tours de force had special resonance to Americans fed up with a president who could hardly string two words together without a collision of syntax and whose idea of clever was the single entendre.
Tina Brown
Together
Words
Gift
Clever
Collision
Delivering
Fed
Fed Up
Hardly
Resonance
String
Syntax
Tours
Whose
American
Could
Force
Had
Idea
Obama
President
Single
Special
Two
Up
Who
Without
When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.
Marilyn Hacker
You
Poetry
Together
Look
Obliged
Phrases
Puts
Sentence
Sentences
Syntax
Tension
Translate
Triple
Verse
Between
How
Line
Particular
Whom
Words
Working
Writer
The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.
Marilyn Hacker
Important
Lost
Language
How
Ambiguity
Connotation
Fascinating
Gained
Linguistic
Syntax
Transition
Vocabulary
Both
Terms
The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.
Marilyn Hacker
Me
Language
Sound
Tension
Creates
Pull
Syntax
Between
Interests
Kind
Musical
A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
Patrick Modiano
Never
He
Own
Errors
Manuscript
Novelist
Occasional
Paragraph
Repetitions
Superfluous
Syntax
Except
His
Reader
With 'Scratch,' you create computer programs by snapping together graphical programming blocks, much like LEGO bricks, without any of the obscure syntax and punctuation of traditional programming languages. After creating an interactive 'Scratch' project, you can share it on the 'Scratch' website, just as you would share videos on YouTube.
Mitchel Resnick
My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.
Bram Cohen
Good
Simple
Support
Language
Library
Named
Object
Optional
Parameters
Python
Syntax
Clean
Favorite
We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. starting over with accuracy.
Anne Carson
Struggle
Language
Human
Some
Accuracy
Attempt
Drag
Grammar
Mush
Starting Over
Syntax
Unconscious
About
Every
Kind
Means
Over
Sense
Starting
Talking
Thought
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