User:Alton/Favorite Quotes

It doesn't matter if 150 million Russians would agree. We don't have a reliable source to support that claim.
— Ufwuct, ^[1]

I'm sorry but, you [another user] have exhausted the supply of good faith assumptions I have for any given editor. My apologies.
— Padillah, ^[2]

...making English the official language of the United States of America is about as urgently called for as making hotdogs the official food at baseball games.
— Geoffrey Pullum, on the English-only movement^[3]

^ on Sharapova
^ on Gadsby
^ Pullum, Geoffrey K. (1987). "Here come the linguistic fascists". Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. 5: 603–9. doi:10.1007/BF00138990. Reprinted in The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1991. pp. 111–19. ISBN 0-226-68534-9.

[1] Sharapova

[2] Gadsby

[3] Pullum, Geoffrey K. (1987). "Here come the linguistic fascists". Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. 5: 603–9. doi:10.1007/BF00138990. Reprinted in The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1991. pp. 111–19. ISBN 0-226-68534-9.

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