Connotation Quote by Edward Sapir

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content…

— Edward Sapir

“The richness of every European language is a richness in ability to describe its own culture, represent its own world. When it ventures to…

— KAPUSCINSKI RYSZARD

“All languages were bestowed with a garland of wisdom and possess knowledge,understanding and instruction to reflect the beauty of a particular culture. No language…

— David Ssembajjo

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

— Hippocrates

It may be observed, that very polished languages, and such as are praised for their superior clearness and perspicuity, are generally deficient in strength.

— Edmund Burke

Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.

— John Dryden

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

— James F. Cooper

The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

— Galen

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

— Tom Stoppard

If language is lost, humanity is lost. If writing is lost, certain kinds of civilization and society are lost, but many other kinds remain…

— Robert Bringhurst

“There are those who eagerly learn another language to be one with another culture, then there are those morons who insist on the exclusive…

— Abhijit Naskar

I don't know whose sensibility I'm responding to. Until someone starts pushing against what they've inherited and starts making their own decisions about language,…

— Leni Zumas