Quotes Tagged With :linguistics

Why do we say razzle-dazzle instead of dazzle-razzle? Why super-duper, helter-skelter, harum-scarum,....

Don't you find it odd that two of the foremost symptoms of insanity are the hearing voices and talking....

We are told that in translation there is no such thing as equivalence. Many times the translator reaches....

Teach me to speak the language of men.

We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones....

An entire mythology is stored within our language.

Not everyone who knows how to write can be a writer. Not everyone who knows two languages can be a translator.....

[Philosophers] have come to envy the philologist and the mathematician, and they have taken over all....

Translation software is not making translators obsolete. Has medical diagnostic software made doctors....

In Iraq, interpreters were ten times more likely to be killed than were U.S. troops.