Linguists Quote by Jeff VanderMeer

“Language is nothing but a huge set of false analogies”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“I’m not a linguist, but do you ever think there’s something wrong with the things we do and don’t have words for?”

— Yoon Ha Lee

Analogies and metaphors have often proved pivotal in expanding our thoughts both within and without science, and so one should not discourage the attempt…

— Tony Rothman

While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.

— Michael Mandelbaum

“Some analogies are so useful that they don’t merely shed light on a concept, they actually become platforms for novel thinking. For example, the…

— Chip Heath

Linguistics becomes an ever eerier area, like I feel like I'm in Oz, Just trying to tell it like it was.

— Ogden Nash

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

— Jerzy Kosiński

“Metaphors are inserted in our language even when they do not stand out (did you notice that?) to us.”

— Niklas Torneke

“Language is but a huge set of false analogies. There has to be a better way to make a point.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“meaning indifferent to the distinction between things. It is not, on the whole, that natural phenomena and entities themselves are disappearing; rather that there…

— Robert Macfarlane

“The atmosphere surrounding this problem is terrible. Dense clouds of language lie about the crucial point. It is almost impossible to get through to…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Empty words degrade language.”

— Toba Beta