Quotes About Linguistics

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

Humans are crude linguists from the moment of birth - and perhaps even in the womb - to the extent at least that we can hear spoken sounds and begin to recognize different combinations of language sounds.

I no longer remember when I started speaking to Raffi in Russian. I didn't speak to him in Russian when he was in his mother's womb, though I've since learned that this is when babies first start recognizing sound patterns.

My interest in the linguistic differences between women and men grew from research I conducted early in my career on conversations between speakers of different ethnic and regional backgrounds.

For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc.

When I was little, seven or eight years old, in third and fourth grade, I would always try to use long words and stuff.

Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything.

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

Most languages spoken by a few thousand people are so complicated they make your head swim; a Siberian yak herder's language is much more complicated than a Manhattan bond trader's.

I spent the nine days' voyage partly sketching my Turkish fellow passengers, and partly trying to learn Turkish, and after a time I was able to say, "I would like a shoe-horn," and "See how badly you have ironed my coat, you must do it again." Father Chantry-Pigg said this phrase book was little use, as it had no sentences about the Church being better than Islam...

Nwt. Her name is the basis of English words such as nocturnal, night and equinox.

A teacher of mine once said there are no true synonyms.

parts of speech.

Carter Please tell me you speak English. I'm Detective Carter. Do you speaka any English Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth

Vowels Irish marks long vowels with an accent; short vowels have no accent. Here are the main vowel sounds:

Türkçenin kendine mahsus bir manas?zl???... Dünyada hiçbir lisanda bu kabiliyet yoktur... Saatlerce konu?up hiçbir ?ey ifade etmemek kabiliyeti!

Enquanto a língua é um rio caudaloso, longo e largo, que nunca se detém em seu curso, a gramatica normativa é apenas um igapó, uma grande poça de água parada, um charco, um brejo, um terreno alagadiço, á margem da língua.

The difference between lie and lay . Lay is always passive. Even men used to say, I'd like to get laid. Though sometimes they said, I'd like to lay her. All this is pure speculation. I don't really know what men used to say. I had only their words for it.

Fraternize means to behave like a brother. Luke told me that. He said there was no corresponding word that meant to behave like a sister. Sororize, it would have to be, he said. From

Fraternize means to behave like a brother. Luke told me that. He said there was no corresponding word that meant to behave like a sister. Sororize, it would have to be, he said.

It has always been my custom to treat words with respect. I can recall the time...when I knew words would be my life's work

We have rapidly increasing technology, which is making life very good for people who are good at using words, and not so good for people who are not good at using words.

Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law

I don't speak French, but I took it for five years growing up. So, if I were in a situation where I had to be, like, 'Excuse me, pineapple dog house red, what time is it library?' - no problem.