Thousand years Quote by Mark David Ledbetter

“Just like money, we take writing for granted. Everybody reads and writes. No big deal. Actually, though, only a few hundred of the six…

— Mark David Ledbetter

“I believe that to be an efficient writer, one must be able to write in more than one language. I know over seven languages.…

— Mitta Xinindlu

“Written language may have been conceived as a modest way of describing reality, bit it gradually became a powerful way to reshape reality.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“language – particularly the language writers use – cannot be set in stone. It is a living, organic, ever-changing thing.”

— John Sutherland

“INVENTING A WRITING system from scratch must have been incomparably more difficult than borrowing and adapting one. The first scribes had to settle on…

— Jared Diamond

“with the exception of Chinese, even the languages that originated writing, and so made the earliest use of it, have dropped their original system,…

— Nicholas Ostler

“As we shall see, the prerequisites for those developments consisted of several features of human society that determined whether a society would find writing…

— Jared Diamond

“We need to write in a language that they can read.”

— Saad Ireland

Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler…

— Charlton Laird

“over half the languages in the world, for example, have fewer than five thousand speakers, and over a thousand languages have under a dozen.”

— Nicholas Ostler

“In such troubled times, we must remember the value writers have—the value of inventing new language to keep pace with the rapidly transforming world…

— Jonathan Stalling

At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages.

— Cullen Murphy