Quotes About Language

Hoy observamos con mucha frecuencia un deterioro de la cultura de la conversación.

Lenguaje auténtico me parece a mí aquel en el que la palabra y la cosa coinciden»

El cambio de una persona pasa por el lenguaje. Aprendiendo a hablar de otra manera, nos hacemos de otra manera.

Porque en ese proceso no están solo las palabras que se dicen: está también la forma y manera como se dicen.

I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for a summer job or suffered under the despotic rule of a tyrannical chef or boobish owner.

I'm asked a lot what the best thing about cooking for a living is. And it's this: to be a part of a subculture. To be part of a historical continuum, a secret society with its own language and customs. To enjoy the instant gratification of making something good with one's hands--using all one's senses. It can be, at times, the purest and most unselfish way of giving pleasure (thought oral sex has to be a close second).

Spanish is the language of the early morning in Manhattan. Frightened people become angry people - as history teaches us again and again. The best of traveling companions: relentlessly curious, tireless and totally without fear.

Nairobi means 'cool water' in Maasai.

There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.

Translation is not a matter of words only; it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.

And those hard slovos, brothers, were like the beginning of my freedom.

A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.

To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.

English is a curiously expressive language. Womb, room, tomb. It sums up living in three words.

Regional dialects have to become national tongues before they can attain lasting glory. As with America, as with Australia. Scottish is different because Scotland considers itself to be a nation. Its language deserves a chapter to itself.

Literature is the aesthetic exploitation of language

So we got hold of him and cracked him with a few good horrorshow tolchocks, but he still went on singing.

They did not understand him. Poor Dorothy had been long in the situation they seemed only to have arrived at, but she tried to tear the head off her doll and cried what sounded like Gog . — There, you hear, her mother said. Clever girl, she crooned at her. Say God. Say sky. — Koy . — She has said her prayers, Kit said in weariness.

If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilised discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.

Besame los yarblocos- El lerdo

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Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.

Verbal description of everything, however, must remain infinitely distant from the thing itself, overstatement and understatement sometimes hitting off the truth better than a flat assertion of bare fact.

Mr. Deacon, on the other hand, was in favour of abolishing, or ignoring, the existing world entirely, with a view to experimenting with one of an entirely different order. He was a student of Esperanto (or, possibly, one of the lesser-known artificial languages), intermittently vegetarian, and an advocate of decimal coinage.