Quotes About Language

And he explained that there was no Mandalorian word for "hero." It was only not being one that had its own word: Hut'uun.

people found off-putting. You could not beat her at chess or Trivial Pursuit or even Monopoly. She knew all the questions on Jeopardy. She knew when to use who or whom. She could not abide misinformation. She disdained organized religion. In social situations, she had the strange habit of spouting obscure facts.

The two women switched to their native tongue. Kate tuned them out. She understood only half of what they were saying. As with most Americans, Dutch sounded to her more like a disease of the throat than an actual language

First you must have the images. Then come the words." —Robert James Waller.

need to pull out the Shakespeare.

He shrugged. "It's always the Sunday following the first full moon that occurs after the spring equinox." Will took a minute to realize he was speaking English.

Moon was from somewhere up east, the kind of place where consonants took on a life of their own.

Change your language and you change your thoughts.

political correctness jeopardizes more than it should the human capacity to speak the truth

The Word ought to be exposed in the words

But be warned! The book is an inconceivably impressive sharpening of the commandment 'Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain'.

The area of the Church stands in the world, as outwardly the Church stands in the village or in a city, beside the school, the cinema and the railway station. The Church's language cannot aim at being an end in itself. It must be made clear that the Church exists for the sake of the world, that the light is shining in the darkness.

Beszélni valamirÅ'l annyi, mint értelmezni azt.

Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English--but are great in remembering signs

Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men.

Production by an isolated individual outside society... is as much of an absurdity as is the development of language without individuals living together and talking to each other

Thus does the beginner, who has acquired a new language, keep on translating it back into his own mother tongue; only then has he grasped the spirit of the new language and is able freely to express himself therewith when he moves in it without recollections of the old, and has forgotten in its use his own hereditary tongue.

A block of blood should not have the word cake after it...they might as well say shite gateau

If I was in charge of the dictionary I would have a right clear-out of words. Words like 'necrophilia' I'd get rid of. If someone has that (attraction to dead bodies), I'd make them say, 'I fancy dead bodies'. Then, at least when they tell people, they might realise how mental it sounds rather than it being hidden in a posh word. And then they'll stop having the problem. The fact that it has its own word makes it seem more acceptable.

Vanuatu has over 100 languages in use among the 230,000 population. I don't know how a place can run like this. Surely a lot of people have to speak a certain language for it to qualify as one.

Some examples for you: 'Mi wantem' is 'I would like'. 'Mi wantem' sounds like 'Me want them', which equals 'I would like'. 'Bitwin' is 'between'. 'Bisnis' is 'business'. By now you've probably got the hang of it, so I don't have to tell you what 'Gud moning' means. If you're still struggling you're a 'dik ed'.

Parliament is a rumor mill staffed by trough-fed clods who abuse the tongue of their birth every time they open their mouths. They all gabble at once and confuse one another mightily, and when this confusion is committed to paper they refer to it as 'policy.

Cilv?kiem pat?k tr?t m?les un kladzin?t. Cilv?ks nav vis c?lies no p?rti?a, bet gan no vistas.

The man who was speaking had a degree in jargon and a doctorate in nonsense.