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Quotes About Language

I don't really use emojis. Is that weird? In the time it takes for me to even find the flexed-arm emoji, I could just type that I'm at the gym.
~ Ross Butler
I've had enough of Bhojpuri cinema actually.
~ Nagma
You have to learn the language of Hamlet.
~ Edward Bond
By including special language in your LLC's operating agreement you may be able to create a safe harbor to insure that future special allocations will have a substantial economic effect.
~ Garrett Sutton
you are never so smart again in a language learned in middle age nor so romantic, brave or kind.
~ Garrison Keillor
You young people learned spelling by the 'Close Enough' method.
~ Garrison Keillor
Do you think it's right for Christians to use the names of pagan gods for the days of the week?
~ Garrison Keillor
was asking what the difference was between mime and pantomime and no one would say.
~ Garrison Keillor
All the best of you is in the old tongue, but when you speak your best in America you become a yokel, a dumb Norskie, and when you speak English, an idiot.
~ Garrison Keillor
I read. And you know 'no offense' means 'I am about to be or have just been fucking offensive.
~ Garth Nix
Garth on naming characters I spend lots of time on all the names in the books... Sabriel herself, I tried many different combinations of different words, trying to create a new name. In fact, her name comes from trying to combine the heraldic term for black which is Sable, because I wanted something that felt dark and mysterious, with the iel ending that you find in angels' names.
~ Garth Nix
And you know 'no offense' means 'I am about to be or have just been fucking offensive.
~ Garth Nix
We speak and understand best our native language. We feel most comfortable speaking that language. The more we use a secondary language, the more comfortable we become conversing in it. If we speak only our primary language and encounter someone else who speaks only his or her primary language, which is different from ours, our communication will be limited. We must rely on pointing, grunting, drawing pictures, or acting out our ideas. We can communicate, but it is awkward.
~ Gary Chapman
Our spouse will usually interpret our message based on our tone of voice, not the words we use.
~ Gary Chapman
Your emotional love language and the language of your spouse may be as different as Chinese from English.
~ Gary Chapman
No matter how hard you try to express love in English, if your spouse understands only Chinese, you will never understand how to love each other.
~ Gary Chapman
If we speak only our primary language and encounter someone else who speaks only his or her primary language, which is different from ours, our communication will be limited. We must rely on pointing, grunting, drawing pictures, or acting out our ideas. We can communicate, but it is awkward. Language differences are part and parcel of human culture. If we are to communicate effectively across cultural lines, we must learn the language of those with whom we wish to communicate.
~ Gary Chapman
Learning to listen may be as difficult as learning a foreign language, but learn we must, if we want to communicate love. That
~ Gary Chapman
A palavra "amor" é a mais importante do nosso idioma — e também a mais confusa. Pensadores seculares e religiosos concordam que o amor desempenha um papel central na vida.
~ Gary Chapman
The Lord loves it when we serve each other in love and put each other's needs above our own. When we follow his commands, joy often follows—as mentioned in the psalm above and as evident in this couple's example. Learn to speak your spouse's love language, and you, too, can have a growing, thriving relationship.
~ Gary Chapman
Most of us have little training in listening. We are far more efficient in thinking and speaking. Learning to listen may be as difficult as learning a foreign language, but learn we must, if we want to communicate love.
~ Gary Chapman
When we correct our children about their language, teaching them which words are appropriate and which aren't, they listen.
~ Gary Chapman
Physical presence in the time of crisis is the most powerful gift you can give if your spouse's primary love language is receiving gifts.
~ Gary Chapman
If we are to communicate effectively across cultural lines, we must learn the language of those with whom we wish to communicate.
~ Gary Chapman