"You and I who read and write books……" — Charlton Laird
"You and I who read and write books have very little effect upon language. We may think about it, write about it, and read about it, but it goes on without us, or in spite of us."
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Charlton Laird
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12 Quotes by Charlton Laird
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If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying…
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Man can be defined, if one wishes, as a languag-ized mammal.
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Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations…
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Amoebas, once they have themselves well pulled in two, go their ways-they practice divorce, but no remarriage.
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Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it.…
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Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed…
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The truth seems to be that they [teachers of grammar] were victims of a mighty hoax, one of those true…
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Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.
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Babies and language are the essential ingredients of civilization, and speakers of language no more know where it came from…
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The great arbiters of language are the women who speak it in the presence of children... What the women pass…
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Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at…
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