Цитаты из книги The Secret Life of the English Language: Buttering Parsnips, Twocking Chavs

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AlinaT

1 марта 2015 г., 16:20

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Our language, or any civillized language, is like the phoenix: it springs anew from its own ashes. T.S. Eloit

AlinaT

24 февраля 2015 г., 18:32

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Cold hand, warm heart

AlinaT

24 февраля 2015 г., 17:15

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Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt

AlinaT

24 февраля 2015 г., 17:13

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fear of the Nothern Light - Auroraphobia fear of books - Bibliophobia fear of going to bed - Clinophobia fear of crossing bridges - Gephyrophobia fear pf travel - Hodophobia fear of ideas - Ideophobia fear of falling satellites - Keraunothnetophobia fear of clouds - Nephophobia (or Nephelophobia) fear of dreams -…

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AlinaT

21 февраля 2015 г., 15:34

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Talking is often a torment for me and I need many days of sillence to recover from the futility of words. Carl Jung

AlinaT

20 февраля 2015 г., 18:56

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"A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do" John Wayne in the film "Stagecoach"

AlinaT

20 февраля 2015 г., 15:09

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"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become, in the hands of one who knows how to combine them!" Nathaniel Hawthorne

AlinaT

24 января 2015 г., 00:16

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Words from Latin "caterpillar" Meaning: larval form of butterflies etc. Origin: from the late Latin words for "cat" and "hair" and thus meaning "hairy cat", presumably inspired by the small hairs on certain caterpillars.