Quotes About Linguistics

If you can not master your language you must be it's slave.

I'm kind of over people using the word 'bae'. Let's get rid of that.

I study hard at Russian, which is a tough but most attractive language.

Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.

I was born in Santa Monica but brought up abroad so I don't use English much.

It is a general truth that students of language in every era try to colonize some or all of the other human sciences.

I work with the Oxford Dictionary databases, which sounds really boring, but they're actually fascinating as they show you how current words are being used.

We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.

My use of language is part and parcel of my message.

Dan watched in awe. "I didn't know you talk Turkey." "I speak Turkish.

Traduttore, traditore.

When you're undead, the emphasis is on the second syllable.

I've always had trouble with the subjunctive. I wish that were not the case.

depends on all of the people who use the language.

In Wales, only about one in five inhabitants can speak Welsh (down from one in

For grammar it [poetry] might have, but it needs it not; being so easy in itself, and so void of those cumbersome differences of cases, genders, moods, and tenses, which, I think, was a piece of the Tower of Babylon's curse, that a man shoult be put to school to learn his mother-tongue.

Now, if anything in the world is complex, language is complex.

I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.

Sanskrit language and the subjects in Sanskrit are both vital alike.

English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. It's the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning.

In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.

I have a small vocabulary, which I move around fast.

Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of 'like' has spread through the idiom of the young. And it's true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.