Answers Quote by David Crystal

Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the language, but…

— Harry Mathews

Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.

— Yasunari Kawabata

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.

— Laura Schlessinger

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world.

— Emile M. Cioran

I think when we engage in language we are engaging in something that is specifically and primally human.

— ZZ Packer

Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

— Lewis Thomas

For me, language is about the impossibility of communicating what we precisely wish to communicate and this gorgeous attempt that we make to do…

— Mohsin Hamid

Fun has to rule in a lot of scenarios. Occasionally, when you are really getting going, you need to stretch beyond language. It has…

— Brian Chippendale

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

— Lewis Thomas

We have only the language for fun and miserable, and maybe we need language for deep and shallow, meaningful and meaningless.

— Rebecca Solnit

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

— Amitava Kumar