Is calling English our national language racist? Are we at that point? — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
“In the twilight that was now the colour of dust, in the fury of horns that was a national language because honking… — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language. — George Mikes Copy Share Image
I doubt that national languages will disappear. In fact, to some extent they're becoming more diverse, like in Europe. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry. — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
Welsh is now almost a national language in Wales. The Scottish dialects are reviving to some extent. I don't think it's a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
Central Europe is full of little countries standing shoulder to shoulder with no window to the sea. They are like the passengers… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those… — Jomo Kenyatta Copy Share Image
“Today, the official national language is Italian. This is based on the dialect of Florence, although people from each region have their… — Marilyn Tolhurst Copy Share Image
English is a second language in most of the educated sectors of Europe and much of the world. But maybe in the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so, while they… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
“There are faces which charge with a meaning and pathos not belonging to the single human soul that flutters beneath them, but… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
One of my favorite literary theorists, Mikhail Bakhtin, wrote that the defining characteristic of the novel is its unprecedented level of "heteroglossia"… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“We’ve driven wedges between parents and children, between liberals and conservatives, between whites and ethnic groups, and between the religious and non… — Robert Goddard Copy Share Image
“Ethnocentrism, xenophobia and nationalism are these days rife in many parts of the world. Government repression of unpopular views is still widespread.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“No one today is purely one thing. Labels like Indian, or woman, or Muslim, or American are not more than starting-points, which… — Edward W. Said Copy Share Image
“The range and variety of Chaucer's English did much to establish English as a national language. Chaucer also contributed much to the… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
They (Americans) have their national game, baseball - which is cricket played with a strong American accent - and they have a… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
As the numbers of native-born Europeans begin to fall, with their anemic fertility rates, will the aging Europeans become more magnanimous toward… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
“The spread of languages shouldn't imply the decay of national languages. There are so many literary and historical memories, so many joys… — Kató Lomb Copy Share Image
