#language

It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish. ↗

— Douglas Hyde

#brought #disgraceful #everything #institutions #irish

The Actor, noticing a closed bookshop, dismounted from the horse which he tied to a street lamp. He woke up the bookseller and bought a Spanish grammar and dictionary. He set out again across town marveling at the way that the words of the foreign language were freshly gathered fruits and not old and dry. They touched the senses marvelously, new like young beggars who accost you, not yet words but the every things they designate, happily running naked before being clothed again in abstraction. ↗

— Georges Limbour

#words #design

Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself. ↗

— Eugene Delacroix

#herself #language #she #show #soul

If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song. ↗

— Sid Caesar

#know #language #listen #minutes #rhythm

It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#english #english literature #even #exaggeration #greatest

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#behavior #could #did #language #meaning

We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which he speaks - otherwise, how could he speak a language which is complex? ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#language #man #many #other #preferable

Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate. ↗

— Steven Pinker

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Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. ↗

— Steven Pinker

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