Language Quote by Alan Perlis

In English every word can be verbed.

— Alan Perlis

Were a language ever completely "grammatical" it would be a perfect engine of conceptual expression. Unfortunately, or luckily, no language is tyrannically consistent. All…

— Edward Sapir

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.

— Edward Sapir

Verbing weirds language.

— Bill Watterson

Almost any word can be drafted to serve as a verb, even words we think of as eternal and unchanging, stuck in their more…

— Erin McKean

Language is not just a code; you are writing into its history, into its tides.

— Hisham Matar

Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the language, but…

— Harry Mathews

After all, it is an ancient and valuable right of the English people to turn their nouns into verbs when they are so minded.

— Henry Watson Fowler

Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

We should constantly use the most common, little, easy words which our language affords.

— John Wesley

Any noun can be verbed.

— Alan Perlis

“Whatever language we speak, before we begin a sentence we have an almost infinite choice of words to use. A, The, They, Whereas, Having,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin