Foreign language Quote by Guy Deutscher

“Our language has lost its ability to convey the spontaneous.”

— Jerzy Kosiński

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

Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to…

— George Orwell

“Verbing Weirds Language only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way. This is a special case of the more general truth…

— John Lawler

“Academic writing was actually about hiding what you didn’t know. There was a language, a technique, and I had mastered it. In everything there…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

. . . the fact that [English] has shed most of the old grammatical forms which time has rendered useless and scarcely intelligible, has…

— Sylvia Pankhurst

It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“The children who were taught in English-only classrooms or transitioned to English instruction before they demonstrated well-established oral language abilities in their own language…

— Terry Marselle

These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply…

— Edward Sapir

To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet…

— Mary Ellen Chase

I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me…

— Steven Pinker

“Empty words degrade language.”

— Toba Beta