Anu Garg Quotes

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Eyes are verbs that conjugate the emotions.

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

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

Garg works in the great tradition of Wilfred Funk and Norman Lewis... Garg, however, is more fun.

[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.