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Black English is simpler than standard English in some ways; for example, it often gets by with just 'be' and drops 'am,' 'is,' and…

— John McWhorter

Black English is something which - it's a natural system in itself. And even though it is a dialect of English, it can be…

— John McWhorter

Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history.

— Etgar Keret

Hebrew is the most wonderful of languages, a language of a thousand antonyms, hard and strong as steel, while soft and gleaming as gold.

— Ze'ev Jabotinsky

Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and fertilized by ancient Semitic languages - by Aramaic, by Greek, by…

— Amos Oz

Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language.

— Cynthia Ozick

Hebrew as a contemporary language, especially for poetry, is no longer the language of the Bible; but neither is it not the language of…

— Cynthia Ozick

“Hebrew ... linguistic development was far from uniform. Even though they share a number of common tendencies, a variety of Hebrew traditions is seen…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

I work in Hebrew. Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages. Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and…

— Amos Oz

Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages.

— Amos Oz

However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but…

— William Labov

I think that, in Hebrew, it's like the language creates a more unique and specific universe even before the story.

— Etgar Keret