Quotes About Language

If they do what missionaries do—study and learn language, become part of culture, proclaim the Good News, be the presence of Christ, and contextualize biblical life and church for that culture—they are missional churches.

Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank.

Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.

Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia.

Two languages in one brain? No one can live at that speed!

What's really notable about the Logi's refusal to engage with us in our own language and media is how they've forced us to communicate on their terms. Our dire economic need to forge a productive relationship with another species has made us accept them and their demands. This gives them a lot more control over how they're seen, meanwhile forcing us to put all the effort into communication, such as our network of translators.

Lydia's never met a working translator as old as this before: usually they burn out, go into teaching, change careers (e.g., become drug dealers) or just retire.

We hear the ocean in our dreams,' " Neeka said, " 'our cages of blood and bone sing her songs. Exiled on shore, our tongues caress the lost words we no longer understand, her language of salt and surging.'

The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.

I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase "a long poem" is simply a flat contradiction in terms.

The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics.

4 The Culture of Do and Tell The main inhibitor of Humble Inquiry is the culture in which we grew up. Culture can be thought of as manifesting itself on many levels—it is represented by all of its artifacts, by which I mean buildings, art works, products, language, and everything that we see and feel when we enter another culture.

we do not think and talk about what we see; we see what we are able to think and talk about.

But you said the words you knew, which were not always the ones you meant.

What's more, I don't believe any policeman uses words like "antonym". I don't believe you're a policeman at all.

am inclined to believe it to have been the most salutary, the most practical piece of training which my Father ever gave me. It forced me to observe sharply and clearly, to form visual impressions, to retain them in the brain, and to clothe them in punctilious and accurate language.

To travel in a foreign country is but to touch its surface. Under the guidance of a novelist of genius we penetrate to the secrets of a nation, and talk the very language of its citizens.

Poets that lasting marble seekMust carve in Latin or in Greek.

And within her something was screaming: "Oh, my God! Oh, my God! He knows French. And those girls that can row and everything. And me, I don't know anything. Oh, God, what'll I do?

Even their voices go up at the end of a declarative sentence

The words ran away with me.

The teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offence: it mutilates the mind beyond recovery.

Karlmenn útskýra sjaldan eigin málefni og ef þeir gera það ferst þeim illa.

Ik weet niet wat een concubine is en ook niet wat je ermee in bad kunt doen. Ik dacht dat het een spons was.