Quotes About Language

Când crezi în anumite cuvinte, crezi în argumentele lor ascunse. Când crezi c? un lucru este corect sau greÈ™it, adev?rat sau fals, crezi în ipotezele conÈ›inute în cuvintele care exprim? argumentele. Asemenea ipoteze sunt deseori pline de lacune, îns? ele au preÈ›ioasa calitate de a fi conving?toare.

Diller bir yaÅŸam tarz?ndaki uzmanl?klar? yans?tmak için geliÅŸirler. Her uzmanl?k, sözcüklerinden, varsay?mlar?ndan ve cümle yap?lar?ndan ay?rt edilebilir. T?kanma noktalar?na bak?n. Uzmanl?klar, yaÅŸam?n durmaya baÅŸlad???, hareketin lanetlendiÄŸi ve donduÄŸu yerleri gösterirler.

Se você acredita em determinadas palavras, acredita nos argumentos ocultos que carregam. Quando você acredita que alguma coisa é certa ou errada, verdadeira ou falsa, você acredita nos pressupostos por trás das palavras que expressam tais argumentos. Esses pressupostos geralmente são cheios de buracos, mas continuam muito preciosos para os que estão convencidos de sua veracidade.

A great burden for one word, Lord. Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.

The plodding, self-important language of government enraged him.

I prefer the cynical view," Paul said, testing. "You obviously are trained in all the lying tricks of statecraft, the double meanings and the power words. Language is nothing more than a weapon to you and, thus, you test my armor." "The cynical view," Edric said, a smile stretching his mouth. "And rulers are notoriously cynical where religions are concerned. Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

Pour bien gouverner, il faut apprendre le langage du monde qui est le vôtre et qui est différent sur chaque monde. [...] Elle voulait parler du langage des rochers et des choses vivantes, ce langage que l'on ne peut entendre avec ses seules oreilles.

There are so many ways of saying Hi. Hiss it, trill it, bark it, sing it, bellow it, laugh it, cough it. A simple stroll in the hallway calls for paragraphs, sentences in your head, decisions galore.

Better an English accent than an empty belly.

There's something weird and sexual about the way some people talk about God--have you noticed?

Here the dialogue form breaks down. From the believer's mouth there emerges what can only be called a soup of words, sentences that begin and do not end, words that change into something else halfway. This goes on for a longer or shorter time.

before men could speak they enjoyed confounding another with signs they enjoyed this as much as a mirror enjoys an image as much as the evening like a ship enjoys a sapphire grave

I think that if you use the so-called strong words you'll get your point across faster and you can save a lot of beating around the bush. Why are people so afraid of words? Sometimes the dumbest thing that gets said makes the point for you.

Hackers, he told one interviewer, were "just this group of computer scientists who were trying to quickly prototype and see what was possible. That's what I try to encourage our engineers to do here." To hack is to be a good worker, a responsible Facebook citizen—a microcosm of the way in which the company has taken the language of radical individualism and deployed it in the service of conformism.

Swahili is a modified form of the Arabic sawa-hil, meaning 'coast people?

Orm always afterwards used to say that, after good luck, strength, and skill at arms, nothing was so useful to a man who found himself among foreigners as the ability to learn a language.

I am always trying to convey something that can't be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.

Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.

German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter removes several uncertainties; I see you more clearly, the movements of your body, your hands, so quick, so resolute, it's almost like a meeting.

My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do not see the word at all, I invent it.

It isn't easy to understand exactly what she is saying, for one doesn't know whether she is speaking ironically or seriously, it's mostly serious, but sounds ironic. - "Stop interpreting everything!" said K.

Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn't make it true.

Writer speaks a stench.

When I say something, this thing immediately and definitively loses its importance. When I write it down, it also loses it, but sometimes gains another importance.