Quotes About Language

The expression 'I miss you' in English becomes 'Vous me manquez' in French, which literally means 'You're missing from me'. In my view, it's a wonderful way to express the emptiness in your self when you truly miss someone.

I'm sorry,' said the shopkeeper. 'I can't understand your ridiculous accent.' 'My accent?' 'It is quite silly.' 'So you can't understand me?' 'Not a word.' 'Then how did you understand that?' 'I didn't.' ''You didn't understand what I just said?' 'That's right.' 'You understood that, though.' 'Not at all.' The American glowered.

Talking about one's feelings defeats the purpose of having those feelings. Once you try to put the human experience into words, it becomes little more than a spectator sport. Everything must have a cause, and a name. Every random thought must have a root in something else.

He said a bad word. Do you want to know what it was? It started with F. It's not the one you're thinking of, though. To the other one. The one that ends with P. do you want to know what it was? It was troop." She frowned. "Wait that's not a word.

Because I'm an English ninja," Tanith replied. "We're just like regular ninjas, except we wear leather and flirt more.

Even as she'd been writing it, she wondered if she was using too many exclamation marks, but she was glad she left them in. Nothing says "all is good in the world" like exclamation marks, after all.

We should have another code for when you're about to hit someone." "Very well. How about 'the sparrow flies south for winter'?" "Seriously?" "What's wrong with it? It's a classic.

We call them groundsharks." Sanguine shook his head immediately. "That's a stupid name. Makes them sound like little shark fins slicing through the living room carpet." "I wanted to call them razorworms," said Persephone. "That's a damn sight better than groundsharks." (Eyes of the Beholder)

Glen jogged back. "What? What are you laughing about?" "Nothing," said Amber, trying to contain herself. "Did you learn anything?" "No," said Glen. "Turns out that old guy is German and doesn't speak a word of English." "Then what were you arguing about?" Glen looked puzzled. "How should I know?

What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns.

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.

Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not, permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas.

Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.

I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.

An entire mythology is stored within our language.

No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.

Certain words now in our knowledge we will not use again, and we will never forget them. We need them. Like the back of the picture.

All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.

Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.

With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.

Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.