Quotes Tagged With :linguistics

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

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.

The difference between bush and ladder also allows us to put a lid on a fruitless and boring debate.....

To deny access to translation and interpreting services oppresses human rights and violates laws.

The language looks rather different when you look at a lot of it at once.

I would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

People's sense of how they talk tends to differ from the reality.

A metaphor is not merely a linguistic expression (a form of words) used for artistic or rhetorical purposes;....

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