"I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics.……" — Matthew McConaughey

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• When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a… — Noam Chomsky
• If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is… — A. R. Ammons
• Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics. — Roman Jakobson
• I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species… — Jeff Stilson
• They arose in my mind as 'given' things, and as they came, separately, so too the links grew. An absorbing,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
• The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language… — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
• It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of… — John Searle
• Linguistics is a good way of defining the culture of a brand. The vocabulary used by sports and lifestyle brands… — Francois-Henri Pinault
• The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his… — Weston La Barre
• Linguistics is our best tool for bringing about social change and SF is our best tool for testing such changes… — Suzette Haden Elgin
• Pharoahe Monch is like an eloquent linguistics professor moonlighting as a rhyme serial killer terrorist, challenging the listeners' I.Q. while… — Kool Moe Dee
• A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms. — Roman Jakobson

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