Quotes About Language

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

Education is education, be it verbal or written.

I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can be found in most classrooms, including mine.

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

A lot of people think that kids say the darnedest things. But so would you if you had no education. You'd just be like, I am bike cheese. Because you wouldn't know what words were.

Similarly, although we use prepositional phrases when we write, we apparently don't write more effectively when we can label our language in these ways.

I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.

I co-founded Duolingo with the mission of bringing free language education to the world.

We are taught words, not ideas.

So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education

Words have power, and if you are going to use your words negatively, then that is exactly what is going to happen in your life.

In school, I was good in academics and extracurricular activities. I even topped the state in French in my Std 12 exams.

I don't think, in my entire 18 years as a student, I ever used an exclamation point in an academic paper.

I find myself using the word 'executives' now.

When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

English is not my first language.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

My first language is Gaelic.

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything.

English is not my language.

Like books you will never have the chance to read, there are languages you do not know, and you're not going to get a chance to learn, so you'll never really know what was written, only the approximation.

When I started out in films, I didn't know any of the languages I worked in.