Anu Garg Quotes

People travel. Words travel. People settle in new lands and so do words. Did I hear someone say they wanted to make walls, close off people from one another? Here’s to more travel, more mixing, more migration, more import and export, and more sweetness in our lives!

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

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

English never met a word it didn't like.

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

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

Eyes are verbs that conjugate the emotions.

[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.

Only Anu Garg, the founder of Wordsmith.org, can make word facts this much fun.

AWADies will be familiar with Anu Garg's refreshing approach to words: words are fun and they have fascinating histories.

The verb "fuck" has been a part of the language since at least early 1500s. The actual practice, far longer. So, no need to be embarrassed of either.

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.

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

Q: What language is not written in French? A: Sanskrit. In French, it's known as sanskrit or sanscrit, which you can interpret as sans (without) + écrit (written) https://www.facebook.com/wordsmithorg/posts/10157813707206840

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