Quotes Tagged With :linguistics

Nothing is more usual than for philosophers to encroach upon the province of grammarians; and to engage....

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

Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.

Language disguises thought.

As long as human beings speak different languages, the need for translation will continue.

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

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

The audible signals people can produce are not a series of crisp beeps like on a touch-tone phone. Speech....

In the absence of a formally agreed, worldwide dictionary definition of 'Quotography' (in 2016), here....

Language has everything to do with oppression and liberation. When the word "victory" means conquer vs.....