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“When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussi...”
“Human language is the new UI layer, bots are like new applications, and digital assistants are meta apps. Intelligence is infused into all of your interactions.”
“Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.”
“Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.”
“It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.”
“You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like 'and' that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea ab...”
“For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.”
“The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the...”
“I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my accent.”
“It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language.”
“I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.”
“The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.”
“For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.”
“Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, ...”
“Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as...”
“English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin...”
“Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.”
“Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.”
“Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.”
“It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.”
