Language Quote by John Wiswell

“Note how, within each, the preattentive attribute grabs your attention, and how some attributes draw your eyes with greater or weaker force than others…

— Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

When a scientist considers all high-tech mental machinery needed to arrange words into ordinary sentences, prescriptive rules are, at best, inconsequential little decorations. The…

— Steven Pinker

“Language at its best is a useful tool, though by its very nature it artificially divides, reduces and over-simplifies. Hopefully,”

— Daniel M. Ingram

“One common function of arguments about language is to stand in for arguments on subjects people are reluctant to broach more directly.”

— Deborah Cameron

In the final analysis, all explanations of meaning, various as they are, serve to indicate how something is 'appropriate' in and to our practices,…

— David E. Cooper

“Language at its best is a useful tool, though by its very nature it artificially divides, reduces and oversimplifies.”

— Daniel M. Ingram

“Language, because it is imperfect, cannot encompass experience in its raw and primal condition. To verbalize emotion and action is to decrease their impact.”

— Cirilo F. Bautista

“Common sense is strengthened by joy.”

— Anonymous

In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.

— Edward Sapir

“Does providing explicit grammatical information during receptive practice have an effect on L2 development?”

— Robert DeKeyser

If it is to be effective as a tool of thought, a notation must allow convenient expression not only of notions arising directly from…

— Kenneth E. Iverson

Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself, might convey his notions…

— Samuel Johnson