Quotes About Linguistics

I was pretty good at picking up new languages when I was little, but it's not like I had superpowers or anything. Kids just have an easier time with words.

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It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

I would expect a significant development and elaboration of language in only a few generations if all the chimps unable to communicate were to die or fail to reproduce. Basic English corresponds to about 1,000 words. Chimpanzees are already accomplished in vocabularies exceeding 10 percent of that number.

In addition to Ameslan, chimpanzees and other nonhuman primates are being taught a variety of other gestural languages. And it is just this transition from tongue to hand that has permitted humans to regain the ability-lost, according to Josephus, since Eden-to communicate with the animals.

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.

Nanny Ogg knew how to start spelling 'banana', but didn't know how you stopped.

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.

In an instant he became aware that the tourist was about to try his own peculiar brand of linguistics, which meant that he would speak loudly and slowly in his own language.

Perhaps there is something in this reflected-sound-of-underground-spirits? It was a cumbersome phrase. Rincewind tried to get his tongue around the thick syllables that were the word in Twoflower's own language. Ecolirix? he tried. Ecro-gnothics? Echo-gnomics? That would do. That sounded about right.

One of the joys of language is its constant evolution, and a lexicographer's job is both to track new words and to reassess those from the past.

Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language... and the imaginative, creative use of that language can be at the service of humour.

Psychiatrist Louann Brizendine states in The Female Brain, "Men use about seven thousand words per day. Women use about twenty thousand.

Language is such an imprecise vehicle I sometimes wonder why we bother with it.

The 'death' of a metaphor is the loss of a connection between a metaphor and a specific word, not the loss of the conceptual metaphor itself. 'Dead' metaphors are words and phrases that were previously metaphoric, not conceptual metaphors that have disappeared. Conceptual metaphors generally 'outlive' the specific words and expressions that involve them.

key linguistic concepts and theories related to Arabic in a coherent way,

El lenguaje produce sus propios problemas, sus propias tensiones, sus propios retos y, por tanto, su propia selección, tanto natural como crítica.

I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.

The English word loo for toilet may come from 1) lieu à l'anglaise, the French term for toilet, or 2) Gardez l'eau! (Watch out for the water!), called to alert passersby that chamber pots were being emptied from upper-story windows into the street.

I catch myself. It's not that bad. But I occasionally switch a word with another word.

Puedes tomar prestadas las palabras que no encuentras.

They had been mistaken, it seemed, in seeking other tongues. Languages were not a special capacity, as she had once imagined, but incautious assent to the wrong kinds of meanings. A

Another issue was language, the problem of expressing these themes in language and the problem of how much one can articulate in language.

Of course words are magic. That's why they call it spelling.