#language

The things I see now on TV and in movies are so outlandish. Kids doing rude things with pies! And the language that they use! It's being outrageous for the sake of being outrageous. I can't watch it. It turns me off. ↗

— Sid Caesar

#doing #i #i see #kids #language

As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#easily #know #languages #lend #themselves

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#curious #good #good book #instructive #language

To have another language is to possess a second soul. ↗

— Charlemagne

#language #possess #second #soul

When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what's left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#among #analysis #assumed #basically #college

Each language is a unique repository of facts and knowledge about the world that we can ill afford to lose, or, at the least, facts and knowledge about some history and people that have their place in the understanding of mankind. Every language is a treasury of human experience. Eyak doesn't give a damn about tenses. But it sure does give a damn about other things, much more than I do. Therefore it broadens your thinking, enriches your ability to understand the world- to deal with reality and experience. ↗

— Michael E. Krauss

#language #experience

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language. ↗

— Lucille Clifton

#language #life #matter #poetry

The only French I know is a kiss. I studied a lot of that foreign tongue in high school.
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— Jarod Kintz

#language #change

Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political. ↗

— Gilles Deleuze

#freedom #grammar #individuality #language #politics

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#teaching #freedom