Language Quote by Daniel M. Ingram

“Language at its best is a useful tool, though by its very nature it artificially divides, reduces and oversimplifies.”

— Daniel M. Ingram

“Language is complex, yet easy, and amazing.”

— Kimberly Loskov

“I'm amazed with language, it's so complex, yet so simple...everything can be influenced by it, and everything can influence it.”

— Kimberly Loskov

“The thing about language is that once you start getting analytical about it, you can't stop.”

— Greg Carlson

“Languages can be powerful things. The stronger ones quite simply bulldoze the weaker ones, assimilating whatever is useful and discarding the rest. It doesn’t…

— Glenn Dixon

“Language is but a huge set of false analogies. There has to be a better way to make a point.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“The silent adjustments to understand colloquial language are enormously complicated.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“For most people, language is our primary interface with each other and with the external world.”

— Erin Kissane

“language is almost the most unique creation of humankind which defines itself; the alternative way of communication/comprehension/conception, yet overusing any invention, can cause Alienation.”

— Fereidoon Yazdi

“To perceive how language works, what pitfalls it conceals, what its possibilities are, is to comprehend a crucial aspect of the complicated business of…

— S.I. Hayakawa

“Language communicates in terms of what is already know; it chokes up when asked to deal with entirely unprecedented.”

— Vivek Shanbhag

“language – particularly the language writers use – cannot be set in stone. It is a living, organic, ever-changing thing.”

— John Sutherland