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Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a stammering verbosity.
-Mary McCarthy
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Our Language, Once Homely And Colloquial, Seeks

Mary McCarthy
Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a stammering verbosity.
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When my works are being translated, i always get this question from my translators: up or down? which means, should it sound biblical and highbrow, or should we take it all down to sound colloquial? in hebrew, it's both all the time. people in israel would write in a high register, they wouldn't write colloquial speech. i do a special take on colloquial speech.
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