“Anyone who has tried to learn a foreign language knows only too dearly that languages can be full of pointless irregularities that increase complexity considerably without contributing much to the ability to express ideas. English, for instance, would have losed… — 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
