#language

Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language. ↗

— Roman Jakobson

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He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits. ↗

— Jack Kroll

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What's great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages and genders and races and backgrounds and cultures. ↗

— David Krumholtz

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Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt. ↗

— Emma Lazarus

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Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things. ↗

— Flora Lewis

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Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means. ↗

— Paul de Man

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I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling. ↗

— Chris Marker

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In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry ↗

— Krista Tippett

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I want to learn the language of the sun, and burn Agatha’s eyes out with my love poems. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

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Metaphor is embodied in language. ↗

— Dennis Potter

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