Writing Quote by Nicholas Ostler

“Six thousand years ago, there were no fully developed writing systems at all though there were, maybe, twenty thousand fully developed languages. (Yes, there…

— 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

“Few Chinese who write can write all of the spoken Chinese words that they can understand. To become significantly learned in the Chinese writing…

— Walter J. Ong

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

— John Sutherland

“If you look at the historical record, you will find that language has always been in decline. Which means, really, and it never has.”

— Robert Lane Greene

“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

“The spread of languages shouldn't imply the decay of national languages. There are so many literary and historical memories, so many joys and sorrows…

— Kató Lomb

“Because at this time, in this place, Chinese writing exhibits symptoms of a mental disorder.”

— Murong Xuecun

“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 is almost the most unique creation of humankind which defines itself; the alternative way of communication/comprehension/conception, yet overusing any invention, can cause Alienation.”

— Fereidoon Yazdi

The FEMALE who invented the sentence, All humans is similar Actually lost her chinese BOYFRIEND ina crowd in China....:D

— Anonymous

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and…

— Joshua Foer