Quotes About Language

Yet this latter statement is a very common one, and so far no attempt to produce a symbolic language capable of making exact sense of religious experience seems to have succeeded very well.[

Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

Apt words have power to suageThe tumors of a troubled mind.

By applying actual words with significant specific diagnostic meanings to much lighter circumstances, people are robbing and devaluing people with mental illness.

He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does so as an adult has no brain.

He who hasn't hacked assemply language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.

The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly too faint for the ears.

When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered.

The German language is so sonorous, isn't it? Beautiful language...the language of poetry. Angry, angry poetry.

God created us with sexual passion so that there would be language to describe what it means to cleave to him in love and what it means to turn away from him to others.

In other words, all the highest aims of language are decisively the work of God. They are decisively supernatural. And no amount of poetic effort or expertise in the use of words can bring about the great aims of life if God withholds his saving power.

Puns often seem to propagate in direct proportion to efforts aimed at suppressing them. Tell someone they can't say something, and they'll find another way, much as a river will eventually find a way round any mountain on its journey to the sea.

Not to pun at all would be more challenging than most people might imagine.

a suave Chinese gentleman named King, who had been a Confucian scholar and now was an elder in the church, taught the Bells the tones and characters of one of the world's most difficult languages. A slight mistake of tone may produce a completely different meaning in Chinese so the Bell's good ear for music was useful. They needed all their youthful stamina and powers of concentration, but Nelson proved a natural linguist, driven onward by awareness that he must soon run the hospital

Puns are at their core defined by multiplicity of meaning, not necessarily humor. The common expectation that puns should always be funny, or die in the attempt, is a relatively modern development.

Just about every sentence we say or hear is a recombination of existing words appearing in that exact configuration for the very first time.

In fact, puns appear so often and in such diverse forms and cultures throughout history that they appear to reflect something fundamental, enduring and perhaps even universal about human expression.

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There is no recorded "mother" of ancient Babylon, as the nation was settled by early descendents of Adam and Eve, who, under the leadership of Nimrod, tried to reach up to heaven with their towers, and were scattered by dispersion according to language. If the Daughter of Babylon verses are actually about ancient Babylon, why does one of those verses refer to a non-existent "mother" of Babylon, as there is no recorded history of a "mother of Babylon"?

Don't use fancy words to make things sound better than they are or try to impress people. Build your breakthrough objectives using straight, clear, everyday language that your employees will understand.

I'm flatulent in many languages.

I RED A STUDY THA PPL WHO TYP N ALL CAPS R LESS INTELLGINT HAHA WHATEVA!!!1!!! ? ? ?

Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that the public has begun to believe the lack of clarity must be a sign of artistic talent.