Quotes About Language

Our all-powerful God got so scared He scattered the human race across the face of the earth, and shattered their language to keep His children apart.

the guy said industry slang for flight attendant was Space Waitress. Or Air Mattress.

It's amazing what a woman will read into it if you by accident say, I love you. Ten times out of ten, a guy means I love this.

A quello che non capisci puoi dare qualunque significato.

We don't live in the real world anymore. We live in a world of symbols.

It's amazing what a woman will read into if you by accident, say I love you. Ten times out of ten, a guy means I love this.

It's weird how the name outlives the person, the signifier outlasts the signified, the symbol the symbolized.

Everyone should use three types of communication. Three parts description. Two parts instruction. One part onomatopoeia. Mix to taste.

People in France have a phrase: Spirit of the Stairway. In French, Esprit d'Escalier. It means that moment when you find the answer but it's too late. Say you're at a party and someone insults you. You have to say something. So, under pressure, with everybody watching, you say something lame. But the moment you leave the party...

This really happens. It sounds trite, but only because words make everything true sound trite. Because words always screw up what you're trying to say.

sedÄ›l jsem tu v marné touze, chtÄ›l jsem srát, vÅ¡ak prdÄ›l pouze

Language had arrived from outer space and mated together lizards and monkeys or whatever until it had customized a host which could sustain it. That first person had been introduced to the complicated DNA sequence of proper nouns and compound verbs. Outside of language he didn't exist. There was no method to escape. To feel anything, anymore, required ever-increasing amounts of words. Great landfills and airlifts of words. It took a mountain of talk to achieve even the tiniest insight.

Wie kommuniziert man am besten das Gefühl, tot zu sein … Ja, ich kenne das Wort kommunizieren. Ich bin tot, nicht geistesgestört.

In a world where vows are worthless. Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power. In

We don't live in the real world anymore," she said. "We live in a world of symbols.

Durante un instante la mamaíta había visto la montaña sin pensar en explotaciones madederas, pistas de esquí ni avalanchas, vida natural controlada, geología de placas tectónicas, microclimas, efecto sombra de lluvia ni lugares yin-yang. Había visto la montaña sin el marco del lenguaje. Sin la cárcel de las asociaciones. La había visto sin mirar a través de la lente de todo lo que sabía acerca de las montañas.

Algunas de las plantas tienen nombres de esquela necrológica: luisa, rosa, ruda, melisa. Algunas, como la reina de los prados y la vellorita, la caléndula o la eufrasia, parecen nombres de hadas de Shakespeare. La lengua cerval con su olor a vainilla dulce. El olmo escocés, otro astringente natural.

We're living in a teetering tower of babble. A shaky reality of words. A DNA soup for disaster. The natural world destroyed, we're left with this cluttered world of language.

Question marks were shaped like a hook for a reason...

2. Words Define Reality Words are like LEGO bricks: the more we add, the more we define the reality of our playset. The dog fucked the chicken tells us something. The Great Dane fucked the chicken tells us more. The Great Dane fucked the bucket of fried chicken on the roof of Old Man Dongweather's barn, barking with every thrust goes the distance and defines reality in a host of ways

her conversation coming so fast that words at the back of each sentence struggled to get ahead of the words at the front.

Speaking Latin properly is indeed to be held in the highest regard – not just because of its own merits, but in fact because it has been neglected by the masses. For it is not so much Noble to know Latin as it is disgraceful not to know it.

nemo enim umquam est oratorem, quod Latine loqueretur, admiratus; si est aliter, inrident neque eum oratorem tantum modo, sed hominem non putant.

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