Communication Quote by Lily King

“You don’t realise how language actually interferes with communication until you don’t have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense.”

— Lily King

You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense.…

— Lily King

“Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The thing about language is that once you start getting analytical about it, you can't stop.”

— Greg Carlson

“This is the difficulty with learning a language: not always knowing if words contain more than they say.”

— Joan Barfoot

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

— Karl Kraus

“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

“Most of the problems of the world stem from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstandings. Don’t ever take words at face value. When you step…

— Anonymous

As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because…

— Marcel Duchamp

“Two of the biggest problems with language is that you can say what you do not mean to say, and that you can say…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Language communicates in terms of what is already know; it chokes up when asked to deal with entirely unprecedented.”

— Vivek Shanbhag

“Language isn't about the words. It's about the transfer of meaning.”

— Thea van Diepen