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Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage. -- Marilyn vos Savant
I don't care how someone lives or how good their spoken English is. I do all of my interviews on Skype text chat - all that matters is their work. -- Matt Mullenweg
It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance of desertification following upon monocultural commodity production, the clear-cutting of written and spoken English. -- Stephanie Mills
The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors, that any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough. -- Adam Gopnik
I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic. -- John Walker Lindh
Richard Burton had a tremendous passion for the English language, especially the spoken and written word -- Frank Bough
Intended to serve as an introduction to both the linguistic and also the practical study of spoken English. -- Henry Sweet
Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree... Bad English will slam doors you don't even know exist. -- William Raspberry
I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago. -- Carl Sandburg
Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would need another lifetime to learn it. -- Sandra Cisneros
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. -- Annie Dillard

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