Degeneration Quote by Joseph de Maistre

Language changes and moves in a different direction evolving all the time. Where a lot of people see deterioration, I see expressive development

— David Crystal

Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of…

— Eduardo Galeano

When a language die we don't know what we lose with language.

— Patricia Ryan

It doesn't take a language long to disappear once the spirit to continue with it leaves its community. In fact, the speed of the…

— David Crystal

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

There's a tremendous amount of language loss. Most of the attention is given to indigenous languages, which makes sense, but some of the most…

— Noam Chomsky

The undoubted sign of a society well under control or in decline is that language has ceased to be a means of communication and…

— John Ralston Saul

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

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

— Jerzy Kosiński

Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.

— David Crystal

Language changes very fast.

— John Maynard Smith

Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses.

— Storm Jameson