Quotes About Language

Poems don't deserve numbers

Wasing the where of needing," she read, forming the unfamiliar words. The lofty tongue was used for old documents dating to the time of the Origin, and occasionally for government ceremony.

You could tell a lot about people from the way they talked. You saw their past, their upbringing, their aspirations—all in the words they used.

Magic is like bad grammar; hang around it long enough, and it rubs off on you.

Resigned sigh." I looped us after an enemy ship. "Did you just say the words resigned sigh?" "I find human nonlinguistic communications to be too easily misinterpreted," he said. "So I'm experimenting with ways to make them more explicit." "Doesn't that defeat the purpose?" "Obviously not. Dismissive eye-roll.

Just having an abstract conversation about linguistic parallelism.

Speak dumb person, please.

Bastards!" Wayne said. "Wayne!" "Fine! Regular old turds then!

I hate it when my food adjectives its own noun.

I didn't know there were so many books in the world," Syl said. "Won't they use up all the words? Seems like eventually you'd say everything that could be said!

You're the only person I know that I can cheer up by promising to kill him." "You didn't promise to kill me," Wayne said, pulling on his socks. "You promised to have killed me. That there be the present perfect tense." "Your grasp of the language is startling," Wax said, "considering how you so frequently brutalize it." "Ain't nobody what knows the cow better than the butcher, Wax.

Words are important," Gavilar said. "Much more than you give them credit for being." "Perhaps," Dalinar said. "But if they were all-powerful, you wouldn't need my sword, would you?" "Perhaps. I can't help feeling words would be enough, if only I knew the right ones to say.

People, they misunderstood the word "accent." They thought accents were those things everybody else had.

There was nothing quite so frustrating as soft words being wielded like clubs.

El vendedor lo ha llamado «chouta». Está bueno.

Additionally, we have compelling research that shows that language does more than just communicate emotion, it can actually shape what we're feeling. Our understanding of our own and others' emotions is shaped by how we perceive, categorize, and describe emotional experiences—and these interpretations rely heavily on language. Language

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable. That's why it loves perfectionists—it's so easy to keep us quiet. If we cultivate enough awareness about shame to name it and speak to it, we've basically cut it off at the knees. Shame hates having words wrapped around it. If we speak shame, it begins to wither. Just the way exposure to light was deadly for the gremlins, language and story bring light to shame and destroy it.

Music, like all art, gives pain and our most wrenching emotions voice, language, and form, so it can be recognized and shared. The magic of the high lonesome sound is the magic of all art: the ability to both capture our pain and deliver us from it at the same time.

political correctness. The history of this concept is as wild and unruly as the conversations about it have become. At this point, the term is so loaded that I think it makes more sense to talk about inclusive language.

The entire premise of this book is that language has the power to define our experiences, and there's no better example of this than anxiety and excitement. Anxiety and excitement feel the same, but how we interpret and label them can determine how we experience them.

With awareness about how dehumanization works comes the responsibility to call out dangerous language when we recognize it.

We need common language to help us create awareness and understanding.

newer research shows that when our access to emotional language is blocked, our ability to interpret incoming emotional information is significantly diminished. Likewise,

Ludwig Wittgenstein that I came across in college: "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world." What