Quotes About Linguist

Cardinal Giuseppe Mezzofanti, born 1774, was called "the Devil" on many occasions. The charming Italian could speak at least 39 languages and, by some accounts, had been tested in 72. As arguably the world's most famous hyperpolyglot, he was also systematic.

He was a linguist, and therefore he had pushed the bounds of obstinacy well beyond anything that is conceivable to other men. He

the linguist David Dalby suggests that the use of bad and wicked to convey positive rather than negative feelings originates in African languages such as Bambara, where there are 'frequent uses of negative terms … to describe positive extremes'. Dalby traces the habit of saying uh-huh to the same source.6 Another

I am heartily sorry for it, he being a most capable, obliging man, speaking all the languages of the Levant and excellent English too - might have built the Tower of Babel singlehanded.

As a linguist, I see the arbitrariness of strictures editors force on me as a writer.

I have a good ear for languages.

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.

I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom.

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.

They're going to regret fucking with a linguist,