Ideas Quote by Casey Miller

Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud…

— Gilbert Highet

Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture.

— Ravi Zacharias

Languages, like our bodies, are in a perpetual flux, and stand in need of recruits to supply those words that are continually falling, through…

— Tom Felton

In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also…

— Gunter Grass

Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing…

— Robert MacNeil

Change in language is hard to capture and when it's visible or audible; it is also hard for some to accept.

— Michael Rosen

I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

— Jane Goodall

if there's one thing consistent about language it is that it is constantly changing. The only languages that do not change are those whose…

— Rosalie Maggio

We're living in a time when the sheer amount of language has exponentially increased. As writers, if we wish to be contemporary, I think…

— Kenneth Goldsmith

We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain,…

— David Levithan

We cannot stem linguistic change, but we can drag our feet. If each of us were to defy Alexander Pope and be the last…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

— Lewis Thomas