Drowning Quote by Douglas Adams

When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but…

— Noam Chomsky

I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out forthemselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of writtencommunication. Another case…

— Daniel Keyes

I studied Comparative Literature at Cornell. Structuralism was real big then. The idea of reading and writing as being this language game. There's a…

— William T. Vollmann

I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out for themselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of written communication.…

— Daniel Keyes

“Linguistics is arguably the most hotly contested property in the academic realm. It is soaked with the blood of poets, theologians, philosophers, philologists, psychologists,…

— Russ Rymer

The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar.

— Constance Hale

“The entire destiny of modern linguistics is in fact determined by Saussure's inaugural act through which he separates the ‘external’ elements of linguistics from…

— Pierre Bourdieu

Precisely constructed models for linguistic structure can play an important role, both negative and positive, in the process of discovery itself. By pushing a…

— Noam Chomsky

It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys,…

— Anonymous

This is every writer's nightmare--the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us...

— Dan Simmons

Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor, or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it may bore…

— B. J. Chute