Challenge Quote by Star Trek The Next Generation

{_To work in a strange language, in which you are not efficient at all , reflects your courage and confidence ; but it is…

— Mak_786

“War?' The word held too much definition for three letters.”

— Shannon A. Thompson

... an inaccurate use of words produces such a strange confusion in all reasoning, that in the heat of debate, the combatants, unable to…

— Maria Edgeworth

In some sense the text and the translator are locked in struggle - 'I attacked that sentence, it resisted me, I attacked another, it…

— Lydia Davis

“The game was in his eyes a contest, a struggle with a difficulty, yet a motionless, unwearying struggle, congenial to his tastes.”

— Jules Verne

Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“You must understand the language of your enemy.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

— Paul Auster

“When words fail, then real language arrives, that rare guest.”

— Carolyn Chun

Battles are won through the ability of men to express concrete ideas in clear and unmistakable language.

— Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

“Please challenge me because whenever I am challenged, I learn a way to survive and a brilliant technique to fight.”

— Rohan Nath

“Argot is nothing more nor less than a wardrobe in which language, having some bad deed to do, disguises itself. It puts on word-masks…

— Victor Hugo