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Quotes about language
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The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms. (Visnjic Goran)
The language of truth is unadorned and always simple. (Visnjic Goran)
I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is an language I do not understand. (Visnjic Goran)
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. (Visnjic Goran)
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. (Visnjic Goran)
All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology. (Visnjic Goran)
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. (Visnjic Goran)
No language is rude that can boast polite writers. (Visnjic Goran)
Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing. (Visnjic Goran)
One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man. (Visnjic Goran)
Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier. (Visnjic Goran)
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. (Visnjic Goran)
The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang. (Visnjic Goran)
Language is a virus from outer space. (Visnjic Goran)
There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth. (Visnjic Goran)
It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay. (Visnjic Goran)
To have another language is to possess a second soul. (Visnjic Goran)
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse. (Visnjic Goran)
If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probably use the language of the New English Bible and the Alternative Service Book for internal memos. (Visnjic Goran)
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation. (Visnjic Goran)
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland --and no other. (Visnjic Goran)
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. (Visnjic Goran)
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. (Visnjic Goran)
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms. (Visnjic Goran)
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? (Visnjic Goran)
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