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“London is a language. I guess all places are.”
“Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt. Some say that the main cause of th...”
“(Rigg) had often complained that all these languages were useless, and Father had only said, "A man who speaks but one language understands none.”
“When somebody speaks a language that we don’t know, we often imagine that some important things are being said!”
“Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain Beauty. When you speak, or read, or write, you can tell if you've spoken or read or written a fine sentence. You can recognise a well-tuned phrase...”
“Language itself is a major resource in the naming of what cannot be named”
“We can only think in a language that we master.”
“Your language indicates──and limits──what you think.”
“No phonetic sign, except at a rudimentary, strictly speaking pre-linguistic level of vocal imitation, has any substantive relation or contiguity to that which it is conventionally and temporally he...”
“Language has infinite power and as long as there’s Romeo and Juliet or Laila and Majnu or You and Me, as long as there’s love in the world, language will find a way to cast its spell.”
“The power of language. Preserving the ephemeral; giving form to dreams, permanence to sparks of sunlight.”
“There was only one huge world with no back to itA world like a sunOne day it broke into tiny piecesThey were the words of the language we now speakPieces that will never come togetherBroken mirrors...”
“Language is a metaphor for experience. It’s as arbitrary as the mass of chaotic images we call memory–but we can put it into lines to narrativize over fear.”
“People's sense of how they talk tends to differ from the reality.”
“A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. And this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate.”
“We read and reread the words of the original text in order to penetrate through them, to reach, to touch the vision or experience which prompted them. We then gather up what we have found there and...”
“Why? Because true translation is not a binary affair between two languages but a triangular affair. The third point of the triangle being what lay behind the words of the original text before it wa...”
“Don't you know how, in talking a foreign language, even fluently, one says half the time not what one wants to but what one can?”
“Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everythi...”
“The language we use can subtly influence our thinking. […]On the face of it, the term “web platform” seems harmless. Describing the web as a platform puts it on par with other software environments...”
