Top 148 Dialect Quotes & Sayings

The Canadian dialect of English . . . seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary.

Children, and sometimes those of larger growth, will not read dialect.

When I speak in Christian terms or Buddhist terms I'm simply selecting for the moment a dialect. Christian words for me represent the comforting vocabulary of the place I came from hometown voices saying more than the language itself can convey about how welcome and safe I am what the expectations are and where to find food. Buddhist words come from another dialect from the people over the mountain. I've become pretty fluent in Buddhist it helps me to see my home country differently but it will never be speech I can feel completely at home in.

When you use a dialect, you worry that the people you're imitating will think you're making fun of them.

I am black, so with my writing and my voice, you get that kind of dialect.

Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read your work and rave about your use of dialect, go for it. But be positive that you do it well, because otherwise it is a lot of work to read short stories or novels that are written in dialect. It makes our necks feel funny.

'Welcome...' was a challenging role for me. Be it the look or the dialect, every bit of it was new and exciting.

If you are playing a Hispanic character who has to speak in dialect or in an accent, nail that dialect or accent. When I hear a character that's supposed to be Cuban speaking with a Mexican accent or vice versa, it grates on me and immediately pulls me out of the story.

As dialect began to be collected in the late 19th century, such words as Yorkshire's 'gobslotch' emerged, revealing the burgeoning association between gluttony and stupidity.

Spell-check ruins my work. It fixes all my slang and dialect into standard English. So I'm caught in a tangle of technology that feels very foreign to me.

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over.

I was too kind of brave and proud to want a dialect coach because I thought that showed weakness in my armor. But then you just learn it's a more efficient way of doing it. A dialect coach is really important because it takes a certain technical responsibility off your shoulders.

I keep to a minimum dialect, in-jokes about football (soccer) teams and soap opera characters, so as not to lose North American readers.

I did 'Christmas Carol' off and on through my teenage years, so I always had that dialect and that sound in my ear, which was so helpful. It became second nature.

It was hard to do 'Vikings.' It was hard to do 'Copper.' Part of that was, like, there's dialect and other things.

The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

When I arrived in L.A., I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult, so I had six months working with a dialect coach, and it's become a habit.

I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought these people out.

The London dialect as it is spoken in educated circles.

Earlier, directors shied away from having a character speak in the Telangana dialect but not anymore.

When students write from experience, they can breathe those specifics into their writing- dialect, odd smells, precise names of plants- that can animate even the most tired and tedious text.

If someone said, I want to translate your novel into Igbo, I would say, Go ahead. But when I write in the Igbo language, I write my own dialect. I write some poetry in that dialect.

Dialect was my biggest fear. So, I spent a long time working with dialect coaches just trying to get American down. I think it's very important and very easy to misinterpret.

I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There is something deep and mysterious in the voice when it isn't too high-pitched American.

I had a really fantastic dialect coach that I worked very well with, and I was constantly surprised by the different intonations that the Russian dialect has.

Bilingual films come with a certain inbuilt practical problem with respect to the setting of the story and the dialect.

I had a dialect coach from the Royal Shakespeare Company who was from Sheffield.

He [Barack Obama] was light-skinned with no Negro dialect.

I approach the singing kind of like with dialect thoughts in my mind. I have to sound like this on certain things to give that Frankie Valli flavor.

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang.

No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try.

Obama a ‘light-skinned’ African-American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.

You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles that we have in our mouths and faces and tongues.

When you get to speak Irish, you become more at one with yourself, you kind of have a spark when you use it, and I think it's a great dialect.

I like playing with languages and dialects as we have so many in India. Adding a dialect just makes the dialogues more colorful.

The one thing about internet language, people join it, and what quickly evolves is an 'internet dialect,' as it were.

Each culture might lend its own dialect, but above all that is the language of music itself, and it doesn't care about politics or boundaries.

I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian.

Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct 'British' accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it.

A non-standard dialect is as valid communication system as the standard

I don't have a Jersey dialect. So when I approached the singing, I approached it the same way as an actor I approach a dialect, just as a singer.

The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to.

The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to. It has a much more percussive rhythm to it.

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.

It's like a puzzle, putting together your individual accent and what you grew up with or what you heard. It must be insane to be a dialect coach, to balance all that out.

Dialect or the speech of the people is capable of expressing whatever the people are.

A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.

I did all the dialect work, all my character work completely by myself.

I had a wonderful, an incredible dialect coach, Brendan Gunn, from Belfast, who has worked with Brad Pitt and Daniel Day Lewis, and me.

In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already his style.

I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was.

We had to speak in a different dialect for '1666.' And when we were told that we would need to do that, I think that was the most daunting part of traveling back 300 years.

When using dialect, use it lightly. A dialect word here and there is enough. All you want to do is suggest. Never let it call attention to itself.

Each dancer has a different dialect that they speak.

I am lucky to have been gifted with a good ear and the ability to mimic. If I can hear it... I can replicate it, whether it's a dialect or just matching the tone of someones voice.

Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?

I have an acting coach, a dialect coach, and just a great team around me.