Linguists Quotes

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Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that. — John le Carre
True education seeks to make men and women not only good mathematicians, proficient linguists, profound scientists, or brilliant literary lights, but also honest men and… — David O. McKay
It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax, with the results… — John Searle
Several of us linguists at that time would record our own kids, just to get some data. There was some literature on it then, but… — David Crystal
I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out forthemselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of writtencommunication. Another case of… — Daniel Keyes
The benefits of becoming fluent in a foreign tongue are as underestimated as the difficulty is overestimated. Thousands of theoretical linguists will disagree, but I… — Tim Ferriss
Humans are crude linguists from the moment of birth - and perhaps even in the womb - to the extent at least that we can… — Jeffrey Kluger
My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries. — Steven Pinker
When a man is in love how can he use old words? Should a woman desiring her lover lie down with grammarians and linguists? I… — Nizar Qabbani
People banging away on their smartphones are fluently using a code separate from the one they use in actual writing, but a code it is,… — John McWhorter
A single human brain has about a hundred million nerve cells... and a computer program that throws light on the mind/brain problem will have to… — Tony Hoare
From antiquity, Latin died but is still studied in seminaries and elite universities. So did Sanskrit in Asia. iI was replaced by Pali, but even… — F. Sionil Jose

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