I don't understand half of what you say and the other half doesn't make sense. — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages. Syntactic investigation of a given… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to… — Robin Flower Copy Share Image
They arose in my mind as 'given' things, and as they came, separately, so too the links grew. An absorbing, though continually… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Animals are not genderless objects. “He” and “she” are vast improvements over “it.” “Who” is more fitting than “that” or “which.” (So,… — Jessica Pierce Copy Share Image
“Trying to take away someone’s language is usually the first step in trying to change them.” — C. N. Lester Copy Share Image
The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness to… — Weston La Barre Copy Share Image
“Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“The reason creatures wanted to use language instead of mental telepathy was that they found out they could get so much more… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
In my own professional work I have touched on a variety of different fields. I've done work in mathematical linguistics, for example,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Daniel Dennett is our best current philosopher. He is the next Bertrand Russell. Unlike traditional philosophers, Dan is a student of neuroscience,… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
“As you are reading these words, you are taking part in one of the wonders of the natural world. For you and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Of village: it is not called so because its inhabitants are of higher age on average; in fact, there is no connection… — Jakub Marian Copy Share Image
The words we choose can build communities, reunite loved ones, and inspire others. They can be a catalyst for change. However, our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we are, somewhere, the deep impulse which generates semiosis, And yet we recognize ourselves only as semiosis in progress, signifying systems… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“It may be a silly way, but if you remember that an owl looks like ʌ(OO)ʌ, it will perhaps help you remember… — Jakub Marian Copy Share Image
In an instant he became aware that the tourist was about to try his own peculiar brand of linguistics, which meant that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Lies, fictions and untrue suppositions can create new human truths which build technology, art, language, everything that is distinctly of Man. The… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Before you judge me as some kind of 'anything goes' language heathen, let me just say that I'm not against usage standards.… — Arika Okrent Copy Share Image
Older siblings get more total-immersion mentoring with their parents before younger siblings come along. As a result, they get an IQ and… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
“The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin,… — William Jones Copy Share Image
It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
“If there's any interaction between genes and languages, it is often languages that influence genes, since linguistic differences between populations lessen the… — Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza Copy Share Image
