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
“We lack the analogies’ was itself somehow deficient as a diagnosis, linguists burning up during re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere after encountering… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Impulse is, after all, the best linguist; its logic, if not conformable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be most convincing. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“For some reason, Area X was very hard on linguists, almost as hard as it was on priests.” — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Political linguists have argued that the right often uses stories to make an argument, while the left falls back on facts and… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
I come from a family of linguists. My maternal grandparents have been authors and translators. — Ishaan Khatter Copy Share Image
To be frank: the translations that often sound bad in the mouths of the actors, these have often been done by linguists. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
It was an epiphany when I realized you don't have to call yourself a linguist, a translator, a poet. You can call… — Jan Peacock Copy Share Image
Humans are crude linguists from the moment of birth - and perhaps even in the womb - to the extent at least… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Language doesn't belong to grammarians, linguists, wordsmiths, writers, or editors. It belongs to the people who use it. It goes where people… — Rosalie Maggio Copy Share Image
I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out forthemselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of writtencommunication.… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed.… — Donald Davidson Copy Share Image
A lot of linguists in the market, especially interpreters of foreign languages, do not have a great command over the English language,… — Chinmayi Copy Share Image
“Linguists have long debated the links between language, culture, and cognition. The theory of linguistic relativity posits that language itself—the specific tongue… — Emily Anthes Copy Share Image
“Linguists are no different from any other people who spend more than nineteen hours a day pondering the complexities of grammar and… — Ronald Langacker Copy Share Image
A linguist would be shocked to learn that if a set is not closed this does not mean that it is open,… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
The benefits of becoming fluent in a foreign tongue are as underestimated as the difficulty is overestimated. Thousands of theoretical linguists will… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
Last week a former Royal Marine who is the boyfriend of the model Kelly Brooks crashed into a bus stop while driving… — Geoffrey K. Pullum Copy Share Image
The job of the linguist, like that of the biologist or the botanist, is not to tell us how nature should behave,… — Arika Okrent Copy Share Image
When I think about discussions at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, a group which includes not only philosophers and psychologists, but… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Several of us linguists at that time would record our own kids, just to get some data. There was some literature on… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
I have declared again and again that if I say Aryans, I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair nor skull; I… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
But in reading Shakespeare and in reading about Edward de Vere, it's quite apparent that when you read these works that whoever… — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to be written,… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
All dogs seem to be great linguists, according to their owners. They always understand every word that's said to them. — Susan Ertz Copy Share Image
We decipherers cannot afford to be as picky as the linguist, who can always run back to a native speaker for a… — E. J. W. Barber Copy Share Image
Even if you close your eyes, you'll still hear Donald Trump sniffing. Linguists might call [these visuals] paralinguistics, every form of information… — Ben Zimmer Copy Share Image
A captured pirate was brought before Alexander the Great. “How dare you molest the sea?” asked Alexander. “How dare you molest the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The corporations plainly want academic scholarship to create a web of mystification that will avoid any public awareness of the way in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
People banging away on their smartphones are fluently using a code separate from the one they use in actual writing, but a… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out for themselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
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