Quotes About Language

A prelingual hearing loss occurs prior to the development of speech and language while a postlingual impairment refers to a hearing loss manifesting itself after the acquisition of speech and language.

The majority of public school programs using total communication employ a form of Signed English for the sign language component.

Considers American Sign Language (ASL) to be the natural language of the Deaf culture and urges recognition of ASL as the primary language

You employ large phrases.

Communication is not about the sender or receiver; it's about the sending. And that's done with language.

Cantus astronomicus, domine astronomy . . ." She was chanting what seemed to be a mix of ersatz Latin and Standard. I knelt

Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.

Chin now joined chai (tea) and shchi (cabbage soup) to form a triad around which revolved a great deal of Russian life.

You can't talk about fucking in America, people say you're dirty. But if you talk about killing somebody, that's cool.

Her ülkede çocuklar o ülkenin dilini ö?renebilirler. Ama, bu memlekette Araplara, Rumlara, ya da Ermenilere Türkçe ö?retmeye kalk??t???n?z anda az?nl?klar derhal 'Az?nl?klara bask?, zulüm yap?l?yor' diye feryada ba?l?yorlar.

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well, is the chief instrument of cultural change.

Ontology is more like a playground than a science.

Interesting philosophy is rarely an examination of the pros and cons of a thesis. Usually it is, implicitly or explicitly, a contest between an entrenched vocabulary which was become a nuisance and a half-formed new vocabulary which vaguely promises great things.

Interesting philosophy is rarely an examination of the pros and cons of a thesis. Usually it is, implicitly or explicitly, a contest between an entrenched vocabulary which has become a nuisance and a half-formed new vocabulary which vaguely promises great things.

Because our majority culture has tended to think of African Americans as inferior, the words we've used to describe them, no matter how dignified they seem when first employed, eventually sound like terms of contempt. African Americans react and insist on new terminology, which we eventually accept, until it too seems to connote inferiority.

Have you ever noticed that when people use the expression 'I have to say', what follows usually needn't be said?

Diderot's solution to the limits of language was to become himself a worker: "There are machines so hard to describe and skills so elusive that ... it has often been necessary to get hold of such machines, set them in operation, and lend one's hand to the work.

Is there an acceptable result? Do we mean something when we talk?

there's no pure way to say it.

The hand is a voice that can sing what the voice will not

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For example, before World War II, the U.S. government called the department that wages war the "War Department." After the war, they decided to call it the "Defense Department." This change has come about because the government does not want to admit that it starts wars. Rather it wants to manipulate people into thinking that it only defends the country against aggressive others. In short, politically, the word "defense" sells better than the word "war.

Remember these rules: Don't say all when you mean most. Don't say most when you mean some. Don't say some when you mean a few. And don't say a few when you mean just one.