Anu Garg Quotes

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All the life's wisdom can be found in anagrams. Anagrams never lie.

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

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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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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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If you torture words enough, they'll confess to anything.

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That'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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If you speak English, you speak at least a part of more than a hundred languages.

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

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Perhaps it's no coincidence that the word words is an anagram of sword. Well-used words cut through ambiguity and confusion like a sharp sword in the hands of an expert swordsman.

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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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A right word is the most direct route between two minds.

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The best way to enrich vocabulary is organically, by coming across words in their natural habitat, taking the time to learn about them, their histories, and making lifelong friends with them.

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We're all surrounded by words like air, and we all need them even though they are often invisible, just like air.

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