Communication Quote by Judith Butler

Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

— Oscar Wilde

“the rules of English grammar are largely an artificial construct with little or no bearing on the language as it is spoke.”

— Ben Aaronovitch

“Linguists are no different from any other people who spend more than nineteen hours a day pondering the complexities of grammar and its relationship…

— Ronald Langacker

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

“The silent adjustments to understand colloquial language are enormously complicated.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“It is a remarkable phenomenon that children can learn to speak without ever being consciously aware of the sophisticated grammar they are using.”

— Timothy Gowers

“One not only wants to be understood when one writes, but also quite as certainly not to be understood. It is by no means…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I do not understand you.” “Then we are on very unequal terms, for I understand you perfectly well.” “Me? Yes; I cannot speak well…

— Jane Austen

The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.

— Karl Kraus

“We must categorize and simplify in order to comprehend. But the reduction of complexity entails a great danger, since the line between enlightening epitome…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Whenever you try and simplify how people speak, it's just hard to squish them into a simple rule. Language doesn't work that way.

— Kory Stamper

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

— George Orwell