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““Knowing the difference between “infer” and “imply” is no more likely to create a skeptical, bullshit-detecting citizen than knowing the atomic weight of uranium or the capital of Niger. Smart””

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“Peeves are like that: my peeves are law, yours are unhealthy obsessions.”

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“Only 8000 different words appear in the Hebrew Bible, compared to the 20,000 or more that the average adult needs to know in most languages.”

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

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“to form such harsh unharmonious Sounds, that none but a Northern Ear could endure: They”

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

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“Afrikaans was the language of the white minority in South Africa, and the forced learning of it created resentment among blacks. Even so, Nelson…

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“I think flexibility, humility, and multilingualism should take the place of sticklerism, arrogance, and nationalism when we think about language. I”

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“Virtually anything can be translated—“X cannot be translated” usually means nothing more exciting than “We have a word, X, that you need three or…

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“America’s short-lived experiment with language planning is so obscure to modern memory that while the Klingon language has a 3,000-word entry on Wikipedia, as…

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“I'd start to explain with the outward sheepish and inner pride of the nerd.”

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“It is possible to communicate beautifully or boringly, in every language on Earth. But people don't like to believe this. They make self-aggrandizing myths…

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