Quotes About Language

Tu abuela dice que lees mucho, siempre que tienes oportunidad. Eso está bien, pero no es suficiente. Las palabras significan más de lo que dicen en el papel. Necesitan la voz humana para que les infunda los matices del significado más profundo.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning." I

He told me what I could do to myself, which was a sexual impossibility.

Every person I knew had a hellish horror of being called out of his name. It was a dangerous practice to call a Negro anything that could be loosely construed as insulting because of the centuries of their having been called niggers, jigs, dinges, blackbirds, crows, boots and spooks.

Cut the sarcasm. It makes you sound like an even bigger asshole

Especially if he called me querida again.

Why had I taken all those useless classes like bio and German when I should have been taking lipreading?

French: why does this language even exist? Everyone there speaks english anyway.

Cal: "Could you write a little bigger? I'm not sure China saw that." Every Boy's Got One

Cementerio El Encinal meant Cemetery of Many Oaks (I'm taking Spanish so that when Jesse and I have kids, I'll understand what he's saying when he yells at them in his mother tongue).

What kind of name is Paolo, anyway? I mean, this is America, for Pete's sake! YOUR NAME IS PAUL!!!

Chez Paolo," Grandmère said. Chez Paolo means "Paul's house.

It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content…it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble, and from babble to confusion. —René Daumal (1908–1944), French poet and critic

Guess what," said Stink. "Did you know fish communicate by farting?

And the Earth had no name. The gods know themselves and have no need of names. It is man who names all things, even gods.

Muse of poetry, come to his aid, I thought. Could the man produce one more metaphor of husbandry? He seemed to be trying. Green wood, I suggested, but even he sensed that there was something unfortunate about a metaphor for a king in which you dry out your royalty before you set fire to it.

If these were death agonies, they were fake ones, Costis thought, and was sure of it when they reached the shallow stair at the far end of the reflecting pool. No one on the verge of death has the strength to pile one foul word on top of another like a man compiling a layered pastry of obscene language, from the the bottom step all the way to the top.

No one on the verge of death has the strength to pile one foul word on top of another like a man compiling a layered pastry of obscene language, from the bottom of the step all the way to the top.

If we went out on the street dressed the way we talk, we should be arrested for indecentexposure. JAMES THURBER

Reading problems may stem from dysfunctions of phonologic or phonemic awareness, deficient analysis or recognition of visual patterns, active working memory limitations, and/or reduced lexical access. The latter might be part of a much broader memory retrieval or language dysfunction.

You're correcting my grammar now? Yes, I'm helping you to be better. And I expect the same from you. What if I don't want to be better?' Then you'll be just a petulant, infinitive-splitting eavesdropper.

Ce Français avec qui je sortais. - Je l'avais oublié, dit-elle. Comment il s'appelait, déjà ? - Enfoiré, dis-je. - Exact.

She's fifth-generation Mexican American, which means she learned Spanish in class just like I did.

I read somewhere that a lot of kids of immigrants grow up quickly and are given more responsibility than other kids. Their parents tend to depend on them, mostly because the kids can speak the language better and can act as a conduit to mainstream American society. The child becomes the parent, and the parent, the child.