I don't understand half of what you say and the other half doesn't make sense. — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people. — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
“The language looks rather different when you look at a lot of it at once.” — John Sinclair Copy Share Image
As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being — Tomas Garrigue Masaryk Copy Share Image
“One small step towards a language is one giant leap towards inclusion.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Not everyone who knows how to write can be a writer. Not everyone who knows two languages can be a translator.” — Nataly Kelly 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
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
“Translation software is not making translators obsolete. Has medical diagnostic software made doctors obsolete?” — Nataly Kelly Copy Share Image
The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
“Every world has its distinct lingo, you gotta catch the right chord. Same language evokes different feelings, based on time and age… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“A Mannerist designer would attack the linguistic convention not by avoiding the use of the signal, but by misusing it notoriously.” — Bonta Copy Share Image
“He grew interested in words as a means of communicating thoughts and feelings, and majored in linguistics in college.” — Shion Miura Copy Share Image
“But Spanish and English aren't different languages, only extreme dialects of Latin. It's almost possible to translate word for word. Translation from… — Natasha Pulley 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 general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
“Linguistics is arguably the most hotly contested property in the academic realm. It is soaked with the blood of poets, theologians, philosophers,… — Russ Rymer Copy Share Image
“In the world “out there,” there are no verbs, no speech events, and no adjacency pairs. There are particles of matter moving… — Duranti a Alessandro Copy Share Image
“But what is the opposite of fidelity?' asked Professor Playfair. He was approaching the end of his dialitic; now he needed only… — R.F. Kuang Copy Share Image
The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
There may be no more-radioactive term in the English language than what we now almost always refer to as the 'n-word' -… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
“We believe that information is an enlightening agent, but I can assure you it is not. We consume information, but we can’t… — R.F. Georgy Copy Share Image
“Immediately on my arrival at the Project I began studying linguistics, because that seemed imperative to me. I was soon amazed to… — Stanisław Lem 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
“The entire destiny of modern linguistics is in fact determined by Saussure's inaugural act through which he separates the ‘external’ elements of… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
“Is it possible to make a sharp distinction between the content and the the form, between the personality of the Texas auctioneer… — Cleanth Brooks 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
“No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Does it distress you, reader, how I remind you of their sexes in each sentence? ‘Hers’ and ‘his’? Does it make you… — Ada Palmer Copy Share Image
“Should data be treated as a language, as fundamental to our existence as our linguistic substrates?” — Roger Spitz Copy Share Image
A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
