Quotes About Language

CHANGE YOUR WORDS, CHANGE YOUR WORLD

This poster, which I still have on my wall 20 years later, contains all 1,945 of the j?y? kanji , the characters designated for basic literacy by the Japanese Ministry of Education. Most

A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander.

Language is infinitely expansive (much like cooking) and therefore horribly overwhelming if unfiltered.

I learned that each character can be broken into components: far left, top, middle, etc. These LEGO pieces, referred to as radicals, form the building blocks from which all kanji are made.

the most important lesson of language learning: what you study is more important than how you study.

word choice and ordering (diction and syntax). He

Gain a language and you gain a second lens through which to question and understand the world.

Words That Work, written by Republican political strategist Frank Luntz.

I believe all audio books should be read and recorded by people from Iceland, because they've got the best accent.

von Ahn, PhD, (TW: @LuisvonAhn, duolingo.com) is a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University and the CEO of Duolingo, a free language learning platform with more than 100 million users.

Cambia las palabras para cambiar el mundo

Los límites de mi lenguaje representan los límites de mi mundo».

Si sabes escribir bien, también sabes pensar bien.»

The most complicated letters in English, like E and W, have four strokes. Many Japanese characters have more than 15 strokes

It is a remarkable phenomenon that children can learn to speak without ever being consciously aware of the sophisticated grammar they are using.

How the word is spoken can dramatically impact the power of the spoken word.

At the sensory level I am the divine receiving station...a two-legged, trembling-tissue, Jodrell Bank radar telescope, dancing, grumbling, sniffling Geiger counter" "But there's an added feature. Each generation, I...return. Each time carried onstage, blinking, puking, bawling, bewildered by the bizarre novelty of each new drama, untutored in the language of the new script (did she say her name was Mommie?)

Korzybski argued that language must be viewed as a map, which is useful only insofar as it is similar to the world it describes. He stressed the importance of questioning the unconscious assumptions built into our language, and urged a response to life on the basis of fresh, "first order" experience rather than the old experiences that have been crystallized in words and concepts.

To Wiccans, a word is not reality itself. For example, the word "apple" is not itself an apple.

Words separate you from the rest of creation, making you more like God than like animals.

Language is not a human invention to be used in whatever way serves our interests. If God is the first speaker, then language is his creation. This means that our ability to speak was given to us by the Creator and it exists for his glory.

Words separate you from the rest of creation, making you more like God than like animals. The gift of words calls us to live and speak in a God-focused manner. One of our greatest mistakes in communication is to take words as our own to use as we please.

Whoever said violence never solved anything doesn't know what he's talking about. Violence is the only language some people understand. Not that I'm fluent, but I know enough to get by.