if there's one thing consistent about language it is that it is constantly changing. The only languages that do not change are those whose speakers a…

- Rosalie Maggio

Language both reflects and shapes society. Culture shapes language and then language shapes culture. Little wonder that the words we use to talk to e…

- Rosalie Maggio

Life seems somehow less shocking, painful, and lonely - and more hopeful, agreeable, and beautiful - when our experiences are confirmed by those of o…

- Rosalie Maggio

Although an impressive amount of business and social interaction takes place over the telephone and fax, by e-mail, or in person today, the well-writ…

- Rosalie Maggio

There are complaints that it's hard to remember what you can say and what you can't, which words are 'in' for certain groups and which words are not.…

- Rosalie Maggio

Money is always on its way somewhere; we are only a way station. What we do with it while it's in our keeping will say much about us - as will the di…

- Rosalie Maggio

Money is a mystery. Not only is our behavior with respect to money sometimes puzzling and erratic, but our feelings about money are often contradicto…

- Rosalie Maggio

Language doesn't belong to grammarians, linguists, wordsmiths, writers, or editors. It belongs to the people who use it. It goes where people want it…

- Rosalie Maggio

Warped with satisfactions and terrors, woofed with too many ambiguities and too few certainties, life can be lived best not when we have the answers …

- Rosalie Maggio