Quotes About Language

It was one of those British phrases, along with 'May I help you?', that can be either exceedingly polite or hugely aggressive.

It was written in the ancient RUNIX spell-language, and is read-only and can't be modified.

For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas.

Mücken haben die blaue Ziege gestochen.

All those words,' she whispered, 'so diligently placed together, and so pointlessly torn apart.

Some people have asked me where I find the large quantity of prepositions that I need to keep my Bookworms fit and well. The answer is, of course, that I use omitted prepositions, of which, when mixed with dropped definite articles, make a nourishing food. There are a superabundance of these in the English language

Take the first had had and that that in the book by way of example, explained Lady Cavendish. You would have thought that that first had had had had good occasion to be seen as had , had you not? Had had had approval but had had had not; equally it is true to say that that that that had had approval but that that other that that had not.

Whoever controls the supply of metaphor controls fiction! . . . Metaphor should be controlled. A glut on the market would make fiction overtly highbrow, painfully ambiguous, and potentially unreadable.

6.6.19.61.247: Vulgar mispronunciations of everyday words will not be tolerated.

The language of division can always be monetised.

I have a tendency to want to understand everything people say and everything I hear, both at work and outside, even at a distance, even if it's one of the innumerable languages I don't know, even if it's in an indistinguishable murmur or imperceptible whisper, even if it would be better that I didn't understand and what's said is not intended for my ears or is said precisely so I won't understand it.

A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them

Writer and researcher of group dynamics Christina Baldwin once said, "Words are how we think, story is how we link.

THE UNANNOUNCED EMOTION: Don't advertise a mood. Invoke it

People may claim to hate puns, but most true word lovers have groaned to like them.

Euphemism. A form of irony that makes bad things sound good—or at least not as bad. Personification. Pretending things are human: another role-playing trope. Kindergarten Imperative. Issues a command in terms of a personal need. Yogism. A foolishly wise expression.

Le he dicho mil veces que los argumentos más productivos utilizan el tiempo futuro, el lenguaje de las elecciones y las decisiones.

And as he feels himself falling asleep he has an insight he believes is important, which he hopes he will remember in the morning, although it is one of those thoughts that seldom survive translation to the language of daylight hours

Power floats like money, like language, like theory.

deconstruction and other French theories] was the gift of the French. They gave Americans a language they did not need. It was like the Statue of Liberty. Nobody needs French theory.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

There is no longer any difference between the economic and the political, because the same language reigns in both, from one end to the other; a society therefore where the political economy, literally speaking, is finally fully realized.

Le monde nous a été donné comme énigmatique et inintelligible, et la tâche de la pensée est de le rendre, si possible, encore plus énigmatique et encore plus inintelligible.

In the beginning was the word. It was only afterwards that the Silence came. The end itself has disappeared...