Quotes About Language

Control the language and you control the argument.

actually translates to "peace," because in Arabic it is based on the same root word, salam. That word, salam, can be found in the traditional greeting assalamualaikum ("Peace be upon you"). But as

It is a basic tenet of all teaching that it should begin with the known and the concrete, progress from this to the new and the unknown, and last of all, to what is abstract. Nothing could be more abstract to the two-year-old brain than the letter b. It is a tribute to the genius of children that they ever learn it. It

years ago one of the translators working on the original Dead Sea scrolls, Professor Schonfeld, discovered a recurring cipher in some texts. A hidden language, if you like. He called it the Atbash Cipher. Ever heard of it?" Savage nodded. "Sure. I thought it was found in scrolls written in Hebrew." "It seems it may occur in Aramaic texts too.

Even the dictionary defines adventurer as "a person who has, enjoys, or seeks adventures," but adventuress is "a woman who uses unscrupulous means in order to gain wealth or social position.

There are black doctors and doctors and women novelists and novelists. Any less powerful group gets the adjective, while the powerful group takes the noun. The less powerful group usually knows the more powerful one much better than vice versa. People of color have to understand white people in order to survive; women have had to know men. Only the powerful group can afford to regard the less powerful one as a mystery.

In many languages, even the word for human being is "one who goes on migrations." Progress itself is a word rooted in a seasonal journey. Perhaps our need to escape into media is a misplaced desire for the journey.

Rhyming in itself is magic.

As with all inferior things, this part of the city was given an adjective while the rest stole the noun.

Will we get to the point that learning sign language is a part of literacy? That knowing both an audible and a physical language is routine?

She acquired a lifetime aversion to the phrases bless your heart and poor dears.

As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism. Scholarly language may be so theoretical that it obscures the source of feminism in women's lived experience.

there is no better moment in life than finding the right word.

Ng??i có quy?n lá»±c chi?m l?y danh t?, còn ng??i y?u th? hÆ¡n ph?i ch?u làm tính t?.

I discovered that Native languages, Cherokee and others--like Bengali and other ancient languages--didn't have gendered pronouns like "he" and "she.

Laßt mir Luft, daß ich reden kann!

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

In Israel, we read from right to left. [To Henry Kissinger, US Secretary of State, who had written her that he considers himself 'an American first, Secretary of State second, and a Jew third']

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like détente when there's a good English phrase for it — cold war.

Like mathematics and geometry, LOVE is a universal "language" unaffected by time and space and understood by all of us.

American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

When referring to an individual, including yourself, never use the word 'just'.

Sloppy language and sloppy ways go together. Those who are truly educated have learned more than the sciences, the humanities, law, engineering, and the arts. They carry with them a certain polish that marks them as loving the better qualities of life, a culture that adds luster to the mundane world of which they are apart, a patina that puts a quiet glow on what otherwise might be base metal.