Quotes About Language

Sometimes it can be difficult when you're talking to a journo after the game, saying, 'Yeah mate, I was on the burst.' And then the translator is trying to translate that into Japanese, and apparently there is no actual translation.

The barrier of communication is terrible if you don't speak the language. You cannot reach a player with a translator.

Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its transmission today is still in part oral, because we become acquainted with poetry through nursery rhymes, which we hear before we can read.

Singing in Spanish is much more honest, much closer to my roots. For me, Spanish is essential. I still think in Spanish, dream in Spanish. It's the melodies and arrangements that transmit meaning.

The goal of Bible translation is be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible what the biblical authors actually wrote.

I've been interested in writing and storytelling since I learned to read, but it wasn't until I read Dylan Thomas, when I was 14, that I became interested in language itself, and saw it as more than a transparent medium for a story.

That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.

Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.

She asked me could I read and write. I told her, "Of course, and I can talk too.

Look at him, he's slain another dangling participle.

Na koncu konca, što je ljubav? Sad mi se ?ini da je to tek rije? za ?itav niz osje?aja, od nježnosti do solidarnosti i strasti. Jer ne treba zaboraviti da je jezik neprecizan instrument, za razliku od slikarstva ili muzike. Ljubav je zajedni?ki nazivnik, obi?na košara u koju ?ovjek trpa svašta. Svaštara, dakle.

Bio je to zbunjuju?i osje?aj. Kad do?eš u novu sredinu pa se osjetiš okružen poznatim jezikom kao toplim kaputom, to ti daje osje?aj sigurnosti, zaštite.

Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is 'fairy lights ' which we boringly refer to as 'Christmas lights.'

So I have an extravagant God with extravagant language to make me an extravagant person-in wisdom. To this end, we pray that God will show us now why we really need the word of wisdom and how we may be in a place in which we will surely know it is of God.

Dizzle fo shizzle mah nizzle fo rizzle

The misuse of language induces evil in the soul

To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.

Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.

Wen das Wort nicht schlägt, den schlägt auch der Stock nicht.

Der Missbrauch der Sprache lässt Böses in die Seele

Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of exchanges that build in tempo or content toward climaxes.

Dialogue is a lean language in which every word counts.

There is a tendency among people within a profession to use or create words whose meanings are clear only to others within their narrow group and obscure to the rest of the world. This tendency in all specializations is a barrier to communication and a support of self-serving secrecy in an "in" group. Writers have an obligation to defend their language against the assaults of jargon.

Speech is the image of actions.