Quotes About Language

Through words to the meaning of thoughts with no words.

To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery.

To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness.

The kitchen, dining room, and living room are mixed up together in a snuggly way, always warmed by the fireplace and the Aga. Peter has never seen an Aga, this gigantic iron cooking invention. I get to explain to him how it works, that the ovens and circular metal iron-topped grills are always on. I show him that you switch a pan from a high-heat grill to a low-heat one and control the cooking that way. It's like knowing a foreign language.

serenading us with "Cielito Lindo." How odd, isn't that Spanish?

I think it's interesting that 'cologne' rhymes with 'alone.'

I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, 'Looks like you're writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you'll get more money.'

Good music is very close to primitive language.

English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.

What could be lonelier than trying to communicate?

L'adoption de l'anglais a, évidemment, entraîné une critique importante : celle de privilégier la langue du colonisateur au détriment de celle des colonisés. Cette accusation a couru tout au long des décennies, mais elle repose sur un vœu qui est souvent resté pieux, celui de promouvoir les littératures en langues vernaculaires.

The world is not with us enough O taste and see the subway Bible poster said, meaning The Lord, meaning if anything all that lives to the imagination's tongue, grief, mercy, language, tangerine, weather, to breathe them, bite, savor, chew, swallow, transform into our flesh our deaths, crossing the street, plum, quince, living in the orchard and being hungry, and plucking the fruit.

In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they're middle-class - they're just working class because they speak with accents.

Calling pronouns like ze and hir "new pronouns" or "neopronouns" is misleading too, because these words are relatively old. They may be enjoying a renaissance today, but ze appears in 1864, introduced by someone known only by the initials J. W. L., and hir first popped up a century ago, invented, or at least introduced to readers in California, by the editor of the Sacramento Bee on August 14, 1920.

Than is both a conjunction and a preposition; it's a floor wax and a dessert topping.

we know that Francis Brewster coined E, es, and em in 1841, and Charles Crozat Converse announced thon and thons in 1884, though he may have invented his common-gender pronouns as early as 1858.

I remember once my kid got in trouble for saying to his teacher, "What time is fucking recess?" and I remember thinking, "Now where would he fucking pick up something like that?

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

Political correctness … is a euphemism for 'that which offends the left.

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

A "Szépség" nem áll sem a csábító vonzó arc!

Alltid använda dina ord med st

He saw a beautiful stranger speaking to him in her strange language. He asked her. "Who are you?" She smiled at him, and said. "I am Love. I am also known with various other names like Amor, Ishq, Liebe, Mohobbat, Preeti, Prema, Pyaar, and Tresna."

Mumbai es real y verdaderamente madre de millones! Curiosamente, la madre se llama MUM en Inglés, BA en Gujarathi y AAI en marathi. Por lo tanto, Mumbai es definitivamente un nombre especial para la madre, en mi opinión. Mumbai larga vida.