Quotes About Language

metaethics is an area of ethics that investigates the meaning of moral language, or the epistemology of ethics, and also considers the justification of ethical theories and judgments.

One might say that ambiguity is the diet of literary studies.

If you're not at all interested in performance, shouldn't you be in the Python room down the hall?)

People call me old-fashioned. The younger guys on the force, they bust my chops because I don't speak their language. Harvey Bullock, dinosaur…because, nope, I didn't see that show last night, where they prance around and belt out awful covers and vote each other into the damn ocean or whatnot.

alter kocker like me. Street-word is Hal hired Coral

Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.

There was a long pause. Um, I'm afraid I don't know the word in English. The word for what? I just said I don't know it!

Du hast so viele Leben, wie du Sprachen sprichst. (You have as many lives as the number of languages you speak.)

Im Deutschen lügt man, wenn man höflich ist.

Man spricht vergebens viel, um zu versagen; Der andre hört von allem nur das Nein.

Where sense fails it's only necessary [1995] To supply a word, and change the tense.

How difficult it is to understand one another in this world.

Mathematicians are a kind of Frenchman. They translate into their own language whatever is said to them and forthwith the thing is utterly changed.

Wenn ich empfinde, Für das Gefühl, für das Gewühl Nach Namen suche, keinen finde, Dann durch die Welt mit allen Sinnen schweife, Nach allen höchsten Worten greife, Und diese Glut, von der ich brenne, Unendlich, ewig, ewig nenne, Ist das ein teuflisch Lügenspiel?

Die Gewalt einer Sprache ist nicht, daß sie das Fremde abweist, sondern daß sie es verschlingt.

Wer den Dichter will verstehen Muss in Dichters Lande gehen.

Beim Übersetzen muss man bis ans Unübersetzbare herangehen; alsdann wird man aber erst die fremde Nation und die fremde Sprache gewahr.

Sabrina and me wasn't being

Language is a living, kicking, growing, flitting, evolving reality, and the teacher should spontaneously reflect its vibrant and protean qualities.

Language study is a route to maturity. Indeed, in language study as in life, if a person is the same today as he was yesterday, it would be an act of mercy to pronounce him dead and to place him in a coffin, rather than in a classroom.

Amidst your Ardor for Greek and Latin I hope you will not forget your mother Tongue. Read Somewhat in the English Poets every day. . . . You will never be alone, with a Poet in your Poket. You will never have an idle Hour.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.

Did I say that? One says so many things, and the problem is they all get written down.