Agree Quote by Gunter Grass

I am a part of the old school where I feel that purity of the language should be retained. But English is a constantly…

— Ashwin Sanghi

Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly…

— Casey Miller

Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud…

— Gilbert Highet

Even if language is a living evolving organism, we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is…

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing…

— Robert MacNeil

It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each…

— Terence McKenna

We cannot stem linguistic change, but we can drag our feet. If each of us were to defy Alexander Pope and be the last…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

if there's one thing consistent about language it is that it is constantly changing. The only languages that do not change are those whose…

— Rosalie Maggio

A new language always reflects a new point of view, and the gradual unconscious popularization of new words, or of old words used in…

— Allan Bloom

We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature of the…

— Chinua Achebe

A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.

— Victor Hugo

A new language requires a new technique. If what you're saying doesn't require a new language, then what you're saying probably isn't new.

— Philip Glass