Quotes Tagged With :linguistics

Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.

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

My partner and I were going to renew our vowels, but the consonants revolted.

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

Of village: it is not called so because its inhabitants are of higher age on average; in fact, there....

Is it possible to make a sharp distinction between the content and the the form, between the personality....

The linguistic system represented in the mind-brain gives some account of everything submitted to it:....

And at the risk of sounding like Andy Rooney on Sixty Minutes, have you ever wondered why we say fiddle-faddle....

The itchy reality of these places is that they are no place at all, they are nowhere. There’s a sleeping....

The words we choose can build communities, reunite loved ones, and inspire others. They can be a catalyst....