Quotes About Language

Estimados caballeros, por nuestra salud mental y emocional, debemos saber que ellas no hablan como nosotros, nunca quieren decir lo que están diciendo, y entenderlas lleva algunos años de entrenamiento; es casi como aprender otro idioma.

L'accent, c'est l'émotion d'une langue.

Un Québécois: C'est un individus prêt à mourir pour une langue qu'il ne cherche pas à bien écrire.

Chaque décennie a son vocabulaire. La fréquence de certains mots dans les médias nous renseigne sur l'état des choses. Les deux favoris ont été pendant longtemps: dictature et corruption. Pour la première fois on entend reconstruction. Un mot vraiment nouveau. Et cela même si beaucoup de gens n'y croient pas trop.

Language does have the power to change reality. Therefore, treat your words as the mighty instruments they are - to heal, to bring into being, to remove, as if by magic, the terrible violations of childhood, to nurture, to cherish, to bless, to forgive - to create from the whole cloth of your soul, true love.

Sbaglio colossale come chi scrive nel risvolto che la poesia consiste nel pensare nella lingua...

What does an educated owl say?" He shrugged. "Whom," she said.

Every act, says Thich Nhat Hanh, should be a ritual of mindfulness awakening us to our true identity of interbeing. "True mind is our real self, is the Buddha: the pure one-ness which cannot be cut up by the illusory divisions of separate selves, created by concepts and language" (Naht Hanh, 1975, p. 42).

Many children use an alternative vocabulary for complex disease names. Hence, some say "smiling mighty Jesus" in place of spinal meningitis or "Luke and Leia" instead of leukemia.

The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.

Two tongues in their mouths, the one they use to promise and the one they use to lie.

but there are many languages on earth that are basically gender neutral, using the same word for he, she, and it, or not using pronouns at all. You've probably heard of some of them. They include: Armenian, Comanche, Finnish, Hungarian, Hindi, Indonesian, Quechua, Thai, Tagalog, Turkish, Vietnamese, and Yoruba.

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.

Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign language

User, n. The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot."

User, n. The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot."

Communication is a beautiful thing, when it works.

L'écriture permettait d'accumuler les connaissances

tous les mondes ne suivent pas le même chemin, mais l'apparition du langage précède toujours l'âge des légendes. L'apparition de l'écriture marque sa fin. Wallie

The eyebrows are the punctuation marks of the face.

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically ' they really mean, 'not really.'

The German root word for "debt" is the same as for "guilt.

Author and counselor Dennis Rainey of FamilyLife explains that women are traditionally more verbal than men. I've heard him say men usually speak about 10,000–20,000 words a day, while women speak 30,000–50,000 words per day—with gusts up to 125,000! That's why a lot of guys come home from a busy day at work, hit the sofa, and don't say a word. They can't. They've already used up their quota.

I'm black—not African American. That's a term I don't like. I was born in America and I've never been to Africa. It's an absurd term. A term that Jesse Jackson crammed down the throats of the media. It's ridiculous.