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Quotes about language
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It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion. (Visnjic Goran)
Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking. (Visnjic Goran)
Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it. (Visnjic Goran)
There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it? (Visnjic Goran)
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The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images. (Visnjic Goran)
Might, could, would --they are contemptible auxiliaries. (Visnjic Goran)
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words. (Visnjic Goran)
I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. (Visnjic Goran)
Language is the archives of history. (Visnjic Goran)
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. (Visnjic Goran)
The language of truth is simple. (Visnjic Goran)
I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization. (Visnjic Goran)
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense. (Visnjic Goran)
Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place. (Visnjic Goran)
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own. (Visnjic Goran)
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. (Visnjic Goran)
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man. (Visnjic Goran)
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have found time to conquer the world. (Visnjic Goran)
The eyes have one language everywhere. (Visnjic Goran)
After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language? (Visnjic Goran)
Language is an archeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history. (Visnjic Goran)
The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion. (Visnjic Goran)
Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide --that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life --are alike forbidden. (Visnjic Goran)
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. (Visnjic Goran)
Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning. (Visnjic Goran)
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