#language

Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages. ↗

— Benjamin Whorf

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We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. ↗

— Benjamin Whorf

#dissect #down #laid #language #lines

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#discovers #exploration #future #him #his

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise. ↗

— George Will

#becomes #idiom #language #nation #noise

Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#everything #language #listening #writing

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#create #fiction #invented #language #need

I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#college #culture #famous #father #geisha

We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking - all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#as far as #cannot #communicate #discuss #embracing

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#because #cannot #feign #himself #innocence

People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language. ↗

— Bjarne Stroustrup

#basically #believe #beyond #consider #discussing