Dorothy L. Sayers - Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the adver...

Dorothy L. Sayers Zitate

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

Bewertung: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5,0 Sterne

Deutsche Übersetzung

Diejenigen, die ihren englischen Sloppy bevorzugen, haben nur sich selbst zu danken, wenn der Werbetexter seine Vokabeln und seine Syntax beherrscht, um ihre schwachen Köpfe zu täuschen.

← Vorheriges Zitat

Nächstes Zitat →

Ähnliche Autoren

A. C. Benson George Eliot George Orwell Ian Fleming J. G. Ballard James Allen Neil Gaiman Virginia Woolf

Ähnliche Themen

Bevorzugen / Prefer Danken / Thank Englisch / English Gedanken / Minds Irreführen / Mislead Jene / Those Meisterschaft / Mastery Nur / Only Schlampig / Sloppy Schriftsteller / Writer Schwach / Weak Schwache Gedanken / Weak Minds Seine / His Sich / Themselves Syntax Verwendet / Uses Wer / Who Werbung / Advertisement Wortschatz / Vocabulary

Ähnliche Zitate

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

Blaise Pascal

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

After only two or three weeks in office, we discovered we had a backlog of 100,000 emails sent to me. We had a backlog of a thousand invitations to speak at places all over the country - and all over the world, for that matter.

Jeremy Corbyn

In medical school, you're taught to write in this convoluted, Latinate way. I knew the vocabulary as well as anyone, but I would write kidney instead of nephric. I insisted on using English.

Ethan Canin

We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.

Douglas Hurd

I understand the worries of many - not only here in this auditorium -, and some have already written to me to say that technical progress has lowered the threshold that stops people from helping themselves to protected works without the slightest embarrassment.

Johannes Rau

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

David Hare

I wanted to write for all children, even those kids who might see language as a threatening thing, even if English is their second language.

Ursula Dubosarsky

In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side.

Adam Levine