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
“Trying to take away someone’s language is usually the first step in trying to change them.” — C. N. Lester 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
“To deny access to translation and interpreting services oppresses human rights and violates laws.” — Nataly Kelly 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
“It is possible to be a great novelist - that is, to render a veracious account of your times - and a… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“Chomsky's writings are "classics" in Mark Twain's sense: something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.” — Stephen Pinker Copy Share Image
Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Pharoahe Monch is like an eloquent linguistics professor moonlighting as a rhyme serial killer terrorist, challenging the listeners' I.Q. while daring him… — Kool Moe Dee Copy Share Image
Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted… — Ferdinand de Saussure 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
“Everyone stared at me now. I’d studied linguistics a long time ago. A little philology too, the study of languages from analyzing… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that… — Ferdinand de Saussure 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 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
I think that this vein is close to being mined out already, but I'll say that my knowledge of and talent for… — Neal Stephenson 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
Linguistics is our best tool for bringing about social change and SF is our best tool for testing such changes before they… — Suzette Haden Elgin 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
“Linguists are no different from any other people who spend more than nineteen hours a day pondering the complexities of grammar and… — Ronald Langacker Copy Share Image
I've spent years studying words. Linguistics, language, the power of words, the power of phrases on human beings. All of that. It's… — Judith E. Glaser Copy Share Image
“We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child.… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
“All Indo-European languages have the capacity to form compounds. Indeed, German and Dutch do it, one might say, to excess. But English… — Bill Bryson 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
Most of my formal choices are a combination of everything I learned about form - semiotics, linguistics, and the history of style… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
In studying language we can discover many basic properties of this cognitive structure, its organization, and also the genetic predispositions that provide… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“I think government starts civilization not writing. In fact why did writing happen in the first place? What happened was bureaucrats were… — Roy Casagranda 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
“In Iraq, interpreters were ten times more likely to be killed than were U.S. troops.” — Nataly Kelly Copy Share Image
If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
