Anu Garg citations (24 citations) | Citations célèbres

2002-11-28
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/28/technology/circuits/28garg.html?src=pm&pagewanted=all
A Word of the Day Keeps Banality at Bay
The New York Times
Katie Hafner

“A large vocabulary is like an artist having a big palette of colors. We don't have to use all the colors in a single painting, but it helps to be able to find just the right shade when we need it.”

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The Philomath Speaks An Interview with Anu Garg (Dec 15, 2009) http://www.nas.org/articles/The_Philomath_Speaks_An_Interview_with_Anu_Garg

“There are exotic species of words jumping out inviting me to play. I weave them into a theme, a garland of words.”

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2000-12-01
Smithsonian
WARNING: Log-o-phil-ia is Addictive
Rudolph
Chelminski

“Browsing the OED is the idea of a perfect day for me.”

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2001-09-26
A Word a Day -- Say, 'Gasconade' -- Keeps Boredom at Bay
Susan G. Hauser
The Wall Street Journal

“[T]hat's how a language grows. Old words die - or take on a new life. New words appear. Language wordstock is replenished, refreshed, and the language remains vibrant and serviceable, ready to describe new concepts, ideas, and objects. Many language purists object to this way of growth. But we have to remember that just as yesterday's liberal is often tomorrow's conservative, in many cases, what was considered slang in the past, eventually acquires respectability.”

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“A word in the head is worth two in the book.”

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A.Word.A.Day (May 7, 2007) http://wordsmith.org/words/stormy_petrel.html

“Overall, the universe's apostrophe store stays in balance. It seems our linguistic world was intelligently designed -- for every gratuitous apostrophe there's an instance where it's omitted.”

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A.Word.A.Day (Sep 3, 2012) http://wordsmith.org/words/crows_feet.html

“For as long as I can recall, I enjoyed reading. I literally read books from cover to cover. Then I started wondering where words come from. Who made them up? Who said that that opening in a wall was to be called a window? Then I discovered that each word comes with a biography. These words have fascinating stories to tell, if only we take the time to listen. For example, the word window comes from Old Norse in which it meant wind's eye. How much more poetic can you get?”

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2013-03-23
The Hindu
Word Hungry
Suneetha
Balakrishnan
http://www.webcitation.org/6FYejBgFV

“English never met a word it didn't like.”

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On English's propensity to borrow words from other languages, quoted in * 2000-12-01
Smithsonian
WARNING: Log-o-phil-ia is Addictive
Rudolph
Chelminski

“Scientifically speaking, an overweight person is more attractive than a skinny one. Newton's Law of Gravitation.”

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Facebook post https://www.facebook.com/wordsmithorg/posts/10157765608546840

“I have a dream where society will replace guns with dictionaries.”

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2002-02-01
The Wondiferous Wizard of Words
Reader's Digest
Rudolph
Chelminski

“Like a human being, each word has a story. To understand a word, we need to learn where it was born, what paths it took to reach where it is today and how it has changed along the way.”

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“Do the best job I can, not hurt our fellow beings on this planet, that's my religion.”