Quotes About Language

Stifle it,' Longmore told the boy. He needed a clear head to find his way through Sophy's rabbit warren of a mind. He couldn't do that and translate the boy's deranged version of English at the same time.

Amethysts, not emmyfists, you illiterate cow

They believe Miles can read it," she said. "Good grief. They must be completely illiterate--or desperately gullible--or--" "French," said Mr Carsington.

I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.

Why Italian? In order to develop another pair of eyes, in order to experiment with weakness

There is no such thing as a perfect name.

The stupid girl thinks Muslim is a language.

why does the word 'pussy' equate to weakness, when even the slightest flick to a guy's 'balls of steel' sends him to his knees—but vaginas can push out an entire human being?

Is it for fuck's sake or for fuck sakes?" she asked the room. "It's a work email, so it has to sound professional.

Kuchi zamishi is a Japanese saying. It's the act of eating because your mouth is lonely

And in the same vein," she said, "why does the word 'pussy' equate to weakness, when even the slightest flick to a guy's 'balls of steel' sends him to his knees—but vaginas can push out an entire human being?

Mudderfudder

Motherforker!

The tongue's the sole muscle in your body that's attached at only one end.

Black Court vampires. I just shortened it some. Ebenezar tsked. Blampires. That's the problem with you young people. Shortening all the words.

There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.

But you'd get arguments from all kinds of people that the Bible has got to be perfect. That God would not permit such errors to be made in the Holy Word. I thought God gave everyone free will. Which would presumably - and evidently - include the freedom to be incorrect when translating one language into another. Stop making me think. I'm believing over here.

Mac folded his arms on the bar and looked at me intently and said, in a resonant baritone, You've got to be very careful, Harry. I looked at him, shocked. He'd...used grammar.

I grunted. It's something I picked up over a fifteen-year career in law enforcement. Men have managed to create a complex and utterly impenetrable secret language consisting of monosyllabic sounds and partial words—and they are apparently too thick to realize it exists. Maybe they really are from Mars. I'd been able to learn a few Martian phrases over time, and one of the useful ones was the grunt that meant I acknowledge that I've heard what you said; please continue.

There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity.

yes, I can in fact capitalize any words I desire. The language is English. I am English. Therefore mine is the opinion which matters, colonial heathen.

Magic is a lot like language: it's all about stringing things together, linking one thing with another, one idea with another.

Honestly. He sometimes felt that humans simply had to be deliberately obtuse. What was so difficult about understanding civilized and excellently enunciated speech?

Kitai blinked slowly. Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous. We have a lot of words like that, Tavi said. They can mean more than one thing. That is stupid, Kitai said. It is difficult enough to communicate without making it more complicated with words that mean more than one thing.