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Language Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- In fact, very few people on the face of the planet know that the very shape of the M25 forms the sigil *odegra* in the…
- I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for…
- It must be powerful language if you canna make oout what the heel it’s goin’ on aboot!
- Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.
- Ah," said Mr Pin. "Right. I remember. You are concerned citizens." He knew about concerned citizens. Wherever they were, they all spoke the same private…
- It is at this point that normal language gives up, and goes and has a drink.
- In an instant he became aware that the tourist was about to try his own peculiar brand of linguistics, which meant that he would speak…
- ASTONISHING, said Death. REALLY ASTONISHING. LET ME PUT FORWARD ANOTHER SUGGESTION: THAT YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THAN A LUCKY SPECIES OF APE THAT IS TRYING…
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