#language

An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write. ↗

— William Labov

#african american #against #american #american children #aspect

I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in Latin, and all these interesting people who were never quite what they thought they would be or seemed to be. ↗

— Suzanne Farrell

#interesting #interesting people #languages #latin #like

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#human nature #itself #language #nature #none

Denmark is like a secret little place with its own special language. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#language #like #little #own #place

When I last went to Italy, over two years ago, I had a lot more trouble understanding the language than I used to when I lived there for a year. I used to speak very little but I could understand very well. ↗

— Marcel Carne

#could #had #i #italy #language

Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers. ↗

— Cesar Chavez

#exact #growth #language #our #ourselves

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#death #into #language #leap #new

Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone. ↗

— John Clayton

#approximately #between #english #english language #jesus

I still have enough faith in language to believe that if I place enough words next to each other on the page, they will start to speak with sounds of their own. ↗

— Dexter Palmer

#dream-of-perpetual-motion #english #language #the-written-word #writing

My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters. ↗

— Bram Cohen

#favorite #good #language #library #named