John McWhorter

Black English is something which - it's a natural system in itself. And even though it is a dialect of English, it can be very difficult for people who don't speak it, or who haven't been raised in it, to understand when it's running by quickly, spoken in particular by young men colloquially to each other. So that really is an issue.

American Writer

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

I will never forget the pleasure and instruction I derived from working with a true master of his art, such as Edward G. Robinson was - and is. Surely his record for versatility, studied characterization - ranging from modern colloquial to the classics - and artistic integrity is unsurpassed.

American Actor

Jacob Weisberg

The tone of good web writing grows out of email. It's more direct, personal, colloquial, urgent, witty, efficient. It doesn't waste your time. It reflects that engagement, responsiveness, and haste of web surfers, as opposed to the more general passivity of print readers.

American Journalist

Eavan Boland

In my thirties I found myself, to use a colloquial fiction, in a suburban house at the foothills of the Dublin mountains. Married and with two little daughters, I led a life which would have been recognizable to any woman who had led it and to many others who had not.

Irish Poet

James Jones

I think that a classic style in writing tends to remove the reader one level from the immediacy of the experience. For any normal reader, I think a colloquial style makes him feel more as though he is within the action, instead of just reading about it.

American Author

Sudha Murty

Though most of my titles are translated into about 7 to 8 languages, I feel that translations, to some extent, can lose the flavour of the colloquial words used otherwise in the regional narrative.

Indian Educator

John Key

The public talk colloquially, the public's grammar's not perfect. They kid around and I don't think they overly mark me down for that. They just see me as a normal guy.

New Zealander Politician

James Patterson

My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone.

David Antin

I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.

American Poet

Pamela Druckerman

Podcasts immersed me in colloquial English and put me back in the American zeitgeist.

Colloquial terms are often region-specific, used in casual chat.

Everyday Speech

Avoid colloquial language in formal writing or speeches, like essays or presentations.

Not for Formal Use

Colloquialisms can carry meanings unique to a culture that may not translate well.

Cultural Nuances

 Just as there are many different aspects of selfhood, there are many different kinds of memory, too. I think colloquially, in everyday language, when we talk about memory, we often talk about autobiographical memory or episodic memory,

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