Also Quote by Henry Sweet

“The study of a language . . . allows its students to hear a people's 'interpretation (or misinterpretation) of messages from environment to human.'…

— Sy Montgomery

“Standard English as it is presented by grammarians and pedants is a dialect that is based on a mostly fictional, static, and Platonic ideal…

— Kory Stamper

A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.

— Anthony Burgess

Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.

— Joy Kogawa

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

— Rita Mae Brown

English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries…

— Zadie Smith

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and…

— Walt Whitman

Grammar is the analysis of language.

— Edgar Allan Poe

I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to…

— Frantz Fanon

With sociolinguistics, after covering the basics of the field, I focused on discourse analysis.

— Carrie Brownstein

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