Fossilization In Language Quotes & Sayings

He looked ... very alone then, a single human in a monster-infested world, a fading bright spot surrounded by shadow. And despite my best intentions, my determination not to be a monster, I was part of the world that he feared. Part of the darkness that would drag him down and tear him apart.
I'm sorry Zeke — Julie Kagawa

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question? — Lily Tomlin

Easy, dushka," he mumured. "You're safe. — Apryl Baker

I don't see myself as a rock star. I don't see myself in that way. I'm interested in work that offers some sort of critical dialogue. — Kim Gordon

Women might just have something to contribute to civilization other than their vaginas. — Christopher Buckley

We are truly defined by what we pass on to the next generation. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

My favorite birthday game is Pin the Cleanup on the guests. — Maxine

We love to chew the cud of a foregone vision; to collect the scattered rays of a brighter phantasm, or act over again, with firmer nerves, the sadder nocturnal tragedies. — Charles Lamb

My fans don't feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I'm going through now, they'll hear about it on a record someday. They'll hear the real story. There's a little bit of lag time. It's not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it's much more accurate. — Taylor Swift

Whether or not these ideas alone would solve any of the problems discussed, I look forward to the day when SLA is more widely recognized as the serious and socially responsive discipline I believe it can be. Chapters like this one (unpleasant for writer and assuredly some readers alike) would no longer be needed. One could instead concentrate on the genuine controversies and excitement in SLA and L3A: the roles of nature and nurture; special and general nativism; child-adult differences and the possibility of maturational constraints; cross-linguistic influence; acquisition and socialization; cognitive and social factors; resilience; stabilization; fossilization, and other putative mechanisms and processes in interlanguage change; the feasibility of pedagogical intervention; and, most of all, the development of viable theories. — Michael H. Long