Language Quote by Ronald Langacker

“the rules of English grammar are largely an artificial construct with little or no bearing on the language as it is spoke.”

— Ben Aaronovitch

“Language is complex, yet easy, and amazing.”

— Kimberly Loskov

“Languages can be powerful things. The stronger ones quite simply bulldoze the weaker ones, assimilating whatever is useful and discarding the rest. It doesn’t…

— Glenn Dixon

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

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Language corresponds only to itself. Intellectuals suffer from that. And once you begin to question language, you cannot stop at studying linguistics. Analytical philosophy…

— Martin Walser

“I’m not a linguist, but do you ever think there’s something wrong with the things we do and don’t have words for?”

— Yoon Ha Lee

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“To perceive how language works, what pitfalls it conceals, what its possibilities are, is to comprehend a crucial aspect of the complicated business of…

— S.I. Hayakawa

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

— Ava Dellaira

“Linguistics is arguably the most hotly contested property in the academic realm. It is soaked with the blood of poets, theologians, philosophers, philologists, psychologists,…

— Russ Rymer

“It is a remarkable phenomenon that children can learn to speak without ever being consciously aware of the sophisticated grammar they are using.”

— Timothy Gowers

“You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense.…

— Lily King