How Quote by David Crystal

I wrote poems and an essay about that weird language. We still remember it to a certain extent, and it still comes up when…

— Paul Beatty

“Bryson says that “we tend to regard other people’s languages as we regard their cultures— with ill-hidden disdain.” Too true. Unfortunately, Bryson proves himself…

— Robert Lane Greene

“Language by its very nature is naive,we make it complex and naughty. We make it look and sound like what it is not.”

— Nahiyan bin Asadullah

“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

“Yes. A language that will at last say what we have to say. For our words no longer correspond to the world. When things…

— Paul Auster

Always, in epochs when the languages and dialects of a culture have become outstripped by development of a practical sort, these languages become repetitive,…

— Doris Lessing

I enjoy the inventive ways in which language is manipulated to make meaning.

— Amitava Kumar

“I believe language is infinitely malleable, a live being in our hands, which deserves our great respect and curiosity”

— Brian Kiteley

“Language is a bountiful gift and its usage, an elaboration of community and society, is a sacred work. Language and usage evolve over time:…

— Muriel Barbery

The language itself, whether you speak it or not, whether you love it or hate it, is like some bewitchment or seduction from the…

— Jan Morris

“Every language has is a beauty, it has it's own uniqueness, it's own fascinating sounds that birth the originality of human being.”

— Euginia Herlihy

My linguistics is pretty theoretical.

— Noam Chomsky