Application Quote by Robert Lane Greene

““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.””

Robert Lane Greene

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

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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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“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…

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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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“Language is not law; it is in fact a lot like music. Speech is jazz – first you learn the basic rules, and then…

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