“In Iraq, interpreters were ten times more likely to be killed than were U.S. troops.” — Nataly Kelly Copy Share Image
If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
“There's an accent shift, on average, every 25 miles in England” — Ben Crystal David Crystal Copy Share Image
“To deny access to translation and interpreting services oppresses human rights and violates laws.” — Nataly Kelly Copy Share Image
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate,… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“Language, never forget, is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.” — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Linguine linguistics that left my verbal essence saucy, Send a message, leave you sleepin' next to headless horsey. — Action Bronson Copy Share Image
If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
We mathematicians are used to the fact that our subject is widely misunderstood, perhaps more than any other subject (except perhaps linguistics). — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
“To discuss endlessly what silly people mean when they say silly things may be amusing but can hardly be important.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If you focus on literature through only one small element of it, like the more scientific element of linguistics, then where is… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“There comes a time when one has to make up one’s mind and choose which side one is on. The catoptric universe… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“I met a girl named Shelby once or twice. For some reason, the image of a car sprung to mind. After some… — Dmitry Dyatlov Copy Share Image
Linguistics is a good way of defining the culture of a brand. The vocabulary used by sports and lifestyle brands - running,… — Francois-Henri Pinault Copy Share Image
The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness to… — Weston La Barre Copy Share Image
“Of all the words that exist in any language only a bare minority are pure, unadulterated, original roots. The majority are "coined"… — Mario Pei Copy Share Image
They arose in my mind as 'given' things, and as they came, separately, so too the links grew. An absorbing, though continually… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at… — Elfriede Jelinek Copy Share Image
“A metaphor is not merely a linguistic expression (a form of words) used for artistic or rhetorical purposes; instead, it is a… — Mark Johnson Copy Share Image
“It may be worth while to illustrate this view of classification, by taking the case of languages. If we possessed a perfect… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
In studying language we can discover many basic properties of this cognitive structure, its organization, and also the genetic predispositions that provide… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“I think government starts civilization not writing. In fact why did writing happen in the first place? What happened was bureaucrats were… — Roy Casagranda Copy Share Image
“Finally, I would like to point out that now in the age of English, choosing a language policy is not the exclusive… — Minae Mizumura Copy Share Image
“All Indo-European languages have the capacity to form compounds. Indeed, German and Dutch do it, one might say, to excess. But English… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Lies, fictions and untrue suppositions can create new human truths which build technology, art, language, everything that is distinctly of Man. The… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Most of my formal choices are a combination of everything I learned about form - semiotics, linguistics, and the history of style… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I've spent years studying words. Linguistics, language, the power of words, the power of phrases on human beings. All of that. It's… — Judith E. Glaser Copy Share Image
“Remember that lettuce doesn’t grow on a spruce; and it also doesn’t rhyme with it.” — Jakub Marian Copy Share Image
“I should think a dead language would be rather boring, socially speaking.” — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
