Quotes About Language

WHAT IS A POEM? Such slight changes in air pressure, Tongue and palate, And the difference in teeth. Transparent words. Why do I want to say ochre, Or what is green-yellow? The sisters of those leaves on the ground Still lisp on the branches. Why do I want to imitate them? Having come this far With a handful of alphabet, I am forces, With these few blocks, To invent the universe.

Words themselves aren't that important. Even if somebody says words that shock you, or make you want to kill them, or make you tremble with emotion, the words themselves you tend to forget in time. Words are just tools we use to express or communicate something.

In the mid-nineteenth century, Jeremiah Curtin, an Irish-American who had learned Irish, traveled throughout the Irish-speaking enclaves in Connacht and discovered hundreds of previously unrecorded stories. He recorded them in their original language and greatly advanced the study of Irish folklore.

Vowels Irish marks long vowels with an accent; short vowels have no accent. Here are the main vowel sounds:

Goodnight: Oíche mhaith (ee-ha ho) Cheers (literally "health"): Sláinte (slan-chuh)

I don't know if my sense of humor goes over Americans' heads.

You got your dick in the vagina so much I should just call you a pussy.

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To perceive how language works, what pitfalls it conceals, what its possibilities are, is to comprehend a crucial aspect of the complicated business of living the life of a human being.

Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions.

At first they were pitched in a low, rasping hum devoid of vowels, somewhat like Icelandic but more bestial. As

The relief in speaking is that it translates me into the universal.

Türkçenin kendine mahsus bir manas?zl???... Dünyada hiçbir lisanda bu kabiliyet yoktur... Saatlerce konu?up hiçbir ?ey ifade etmemek kabiliyeti!

He slipped into the hall, then nearly tripped over a man sitting in the middle. It was his friend Dr. Roget, whose project of grouping words by their types absorbed his every hour these days. Anthony tried to sneak past, but no such luck.

I also saw that language was no more than a conspiracy devised by human beings. If someone spoke, I realized they were only making sounds, and I was making up the meanings. So, I stopped making up meanings and the sounds became very amusing. I could see patterns spewing out of their mouths. If I kept staring, the person would just disintegrate and turn into a blob of energy. Then all that was left was patterns!

I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected

BOOKS… The Loom of Language

Aside from the basic African dialects, I would try to learn Chinese, because it looks as if Chinese will be the most powerful political language of the future.

Lacking a shared language, emotions are perhaps our most effective means of cross-species communication. We can share our emotions, we can understand the language of feelings, and that's why we form deep and enduring social bonds with many other beings. Emotions are the glue that binds.

Words are not the things they name. Saussere says they take distinctive meaning by contrast with other words. A square is a square because it's not a triangle, not a circle.

Enquanto a língua é um rio caudaloso, longo e largo, que nunca se detém em seu curso, a gramatica normativa é apenas um igapó, uma grande poça de água parada, um charco, um brejo, um terreno alagadiço, á margem da língua.

Aprendí de Alejandro el gramático el no censurar; no zaherir a quienes se les fue un barbarismo, un solecismo o cualquier viciosa pronunciación; sino anunciar con maña aquella única palabra que convenía proferir, bajo la forma de una respuesta, de una confirmación o de una deliberación sobre el fondo mismo, no sobre la forma, o por otro medio apropiado de hábil sugerencia.

10. THE LITERARY CRITIC ALEXANDER Not to be constantly correcting people, and in particular not to jump on them whenever they make an error of usage or a grammatical mistake or mispronounce something, but just answer their question or add another example, or debate the issue itself (not their phrasing), or make some other contribution to the discussion—and insert the right expression, unobtrusively.

Not to be constantly correcting people, and in particular not to jump on them whenever they make an error of usage or a grammatical mistake or mispronounce something, but just answer their question or add another example, or debate the issue itself (not their phrasing), or make some other contribution to the discussion—and insert the right expression, unobtrusively.