Conversation Quote by Mort W. Lumsden

“Those who can't, and can't teach, translate. (attrib: F.L. Vanderson)”

— Mort W. Lumsden

“Another issue was language, the problem of expressing these themes in language and the problem of how much one can articulate in language.”

— Gao Xingjian

“One common function of arguments about language is to stand in for arguments on subjects people are reluctant to broach more directly.”

— Deborah Cameron

“There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language,”

— Ava Dellaira

“I believe language is infinitely malleable, a live being in our hands, which deserves our great respect and curiosity”

— Brian Kiteley

“Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of our most distinctive markers of identity.”

— Robert Lane Greene

“One should always cite what one does not understand at all in the language one understands the least.”

— Voltaire

“Language at its best is a useful tool, though by its very nature it artificially divides, reduces and oversimplifies.”

— Daniel M. Ingram

“Language is the medium of literature, and the state of the language at any time can hardly fail to carry literary consequences.”

— J.A. Burrow

“The point in all this is that language is a handy whipping boy to summon and belabor when we have failed in some serious…

— Chinua Achebe

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

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Language at its best is a useful tool, though by its very nature it artificially divides, reduces and over-simplifies. Hopefully,”

— Daniel M. Ingram