Quotes About Language

You might, for example, be interested to know that the word "prestigious" is derived from the Latin praestigiae, which means "conjuror's tricks." Isn't that interesting? This word that we use to mean honorable and esteemed has its beginnings in a word that has everything to do with illusion, deception, and trickery.

One thing I never forgot from my Latin class is that a language that is descended from another language is called a daughter language. It was the beginning of the next era of my life, like this is of yours.

Podría interesarte saber, por ejemplo, que la palabra «prestigioso» deriva del término latino prestigiae, que significa «truco de prestidigitación». ¿No te parece interesante? La utilizamos para referirnos a lo honorable y lo valorado, pero esta palabra remite a la ilusión, el engaño, a las falsas impresiones.

Kids were always writing FUCK on things. Hollis Jurkowski had always wondered whether the students, ranging in age from five to twelve, really knew what it meant or whether they just wrote it because they knew the word was particularly upsetting to grownups.

All Hungarians are supposed to be descendants of a lost tribe of Martians who came to colonize the earth. That's why their language has nothing in common with other European languages.

We were talking a lot, but we weren't communicating at all.

Sir, I can put a sentence together in English. But all my effort goes into remembering the right words.

why don't they call white-skinned people rice-ish?).

big emotions do not come from big words.

language, the second hindrance is the attitude. There are two attitudes— first, the

After all these years, it's still embarrassing for me to play on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie for a sand wedge and he came back ten minutes later with a ham on rye.

I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.

Hungarian...) the only tongue the devil respects.

Ali por uns segundos tive a sensação de haver desembarcado em país de língua desconhecida, o que para mim era sempre uma sensação boa, era como se a vida fosse partir do zero.

Naquele dia entrei em sua casa com o propósito de acertar as contas e dar por encerrado aquele curso de merda. Mas antes de partir faria um pronunciamento em língua portuguesa, num português brasileiro e muito chulo, com palavras oxítonas terminadas em ão, e com nomes de árvores indígenas e pratos africanos que a apavorassem, uma linguagem que reduzisse seu húngaro a zero.

#undernocircumstances shud sum1 feel its ok 2 tlk lik this. You have 140 characters. Use them and stop typing like you're illiterate.

The words you choose to say something are just as important as the decision to speak.

Fie, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue!

I just wish my mouth had a backspace key.

There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

When little boys have learned a new bad word they are never happy till they have chalked it up on a door.

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

Profanity is more necessary to me than is immunity from colds.

He called me a quadrilateral astronomical incandescent son of a bitch.