“Should data be treated as a language, as fundamental to our existence as our linguistic substrates?” — Roger Spitz 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
The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
I never thought of that one, that linguistics could be driving cultural things. There are some thoughts that that does happen in… — Hal Whitehead Copy Share Image
I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people. — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
Linguistics becomes an ever eerier area, like I feel like I'm in Oz, Just trying to tell it like it was. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
“The task of general semiotics is that of tracing a single formal structure which underlies all these phenomena, this structure being that… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Perception is always interrogative and conditional and is invariably based (even if we do not realize it) on a bet.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Dr. Karel Culik is an outstanding applied mathematician, a specialist in algebra, logic, computer sciences and mathematical linguistics. In 1965, he visited… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“If we should be worrying about anything to do with the future of English, it should not be that the various strands… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
“You will criticize me, reader, for writing in a style six hundred years removed from the events I describe, but you came… — Ada Palmer 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
“Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complimentary moist lemon-scented cleansing square or… — Stephen Fry 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
“How many Lojbanists does it take to change a broken light-bulb?” goes the old Lojban joke. “Two: one to decide what to… — Arika Okrent Copy Share Image
I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the… — Jeff Stilson Copy Share Image
“In the absence of a formally agreed, worldwide dictionary definition of 'Quotography' (in 2016), here are my two cents worth: 'Quotography is… — Alex Morritt Copy Share Image
“... [In 'Pride and Prejudice'] Mr Collins's repulsiveness in his letter [about Lydia's elopement] does not exist only at the level of… — Andrew Elfenbein Copy Share Image
The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
“...no theory of hermeneutic legitimation can be indeed legitimate if not by the process of hermeneutic reading… At the origin of the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“It was one year, to the day, that his wife had died. "Passed away," was the term that everyone liked to use.… — Phaedra Patrick Copy Share Image
“Translation software is not making translators obsolete. Has medical diagnostic software made doctors obsolete?” — Nataly Kelly Copy Share Image
I tell ya, if I hadn't chosen the career of being a performer, I think linguistics would have been a natural area… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
