Baby Quote by Charlton Laird

“Babies and language are the essential ingredients of civilization, and speakers of language no more know where it came from than babies know where they come from.” quote by Charlton Laird — Download Open image

“Babies and language are the essential ingredients of civilization, and speakers of language no more know where it came from than babies know where they come from.”

Charlton Laird

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An amoeba is a formless thing which takes many shapes. It moves by thrusting out an arm, and flowing into the arm. It multiplies by pulling itself in two, without permanently diminishing the original. So with words. A meaning may develop on the periphery of the body of meanings associated with a word, and shortly this tentacle-meaning has grown to…

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Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler…

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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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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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Man can be defined, if one wishes, as a languag-ized mammal.

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If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.

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