#languages

I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages. ↗

— Jon Secada

#both #community #done #grew #i

It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with. ↗

— William Wiley

#available #communicate #concepts #confine #english

Language by its very nature is naive,we make it complex and naughty. We make it look and sound like what it is not. ↗

— Nahiyan bin Asadullah

#nature

There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#latin #language

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#bilingual #different #fair #favourite #foreign

In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#comparing #concrete #connections #could #different

I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries. ↗

— Tim Berners Lee

#browse #countries #different #different countries #enough

BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#humor #languages #poison #beauty

Do you wish to speak in Provençal, French, or Latin? They are all I can manage, I'm afraid." "Any will do," the rabbi replied in Provençal. "Splendid. Latin it is," said Pope Clement. ↗

— Iain Pears

#communication #conceit #languages #mockery #papal-authority

There is no such thing as a dead language, only a dead lay that's a little too quiet for my tastes. ↗

— Scott Jonathan Nixon

#languages #love