Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented. — Guy Deutscher Copy Share Image
As strange as it may sound, our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word… — Guy Deutscher Copy Share Image
And there are also languages that divide nouns into much more specific genders. The African language Supyire from Mali has five genders: humans, big… — Guy Deutscher Copy Share Image
“The normal man of intelligence has something of a contempt for linguistic studies, convinced as he is nothing can well be more useless. Edward… — Guy Deutscher Copy Share Image
“we see in essence not with two eyes but with three: with the two eyes of the body and with the eye of the… — Guy Deutscher Copy Share Image
“And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue has exhausted their brains'… — Guy Deutscher Copy Share Image
Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented. — Guy Deutscher Copy Share Image
“Anyone who has tried to learn a foreign language knows only too dearly that languages can be full of pointless irregularities that increase complexity… — Guy Deutscher Copy Share Image
“Language is mankind's greatest inventiom… that it was never invented.” — Guy Deutscher Copy Share Image
