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And adab towards language means the recognition and acknowledgement of the rightful and proper place of every word in a written or uttered sentence so as not to produce a dissonance in meaning, sound and concept. Literature is called adabiyat in Islam precisely because it is seen as the keeper of civilization, the collector of teachings and statements that educate the self and society with adab such that both are elevated to the rank of the cultured man (insan adabi) and society. ↗


— Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud


#language #literature #education

English is so hierarchical. In Cree, we don't have animate-inanimate comparisons between things. Animals have souls that are equal to ours. Rocks have souls, trees have souls. Trees are 'who,' not 'what. ↗


— Tomson Highway


#indigenous-peoples #language #nature #equality

As vocabulary is reduced , so are the number of feelings you can express, the number of events you can describe, the number of the things you can identify! Not only understanding is limited, but also experience. Man grows by language. Whenever he limits language he retrogresses! ↗


— Sheri S. Tepper


#vocabulary #experience

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me. ↗


— Matt Groening


#humor #language #satire #simpsons #social-commentary

My sincere thanks to friends and family, especially my mother, father, brother, and Mandy, who continue to love and support me despite my obsessions. ↗


— Jonathan Ball


#embarrassment #friendship #gross #language-barrier #poetry

But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not. ↗


— John Steinbeck


#freedom #freedom-of-choice #hebrew #language #timshel

The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; and under the same head must be ranked all extraordinary qualities of body and mind. ↗


— Nassau William Senior


#commercial #extraordinary #head #language #made

With languages, you are at home anywhere. ↗


— Edward De Waal


#languages #travel #home

I often fantasize about torturing some of the lazier letters of the alphabet, like C, U, and E, because together they only manage to accomplish as much as the solitary letter Q. ↗


— Jarod Kintz


#fantasy #funny #humor #language #letters

Xander: To read makes our speaking English good. ↗


— Ashley Gable


#grammar-humor #humor #language #humor






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