Commonly Quote by Steven Pinker Download Open image “Language mavens commonly confuse their own peeves with a worsening of the language.” — Steven Pinker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Commonly Confuse Language Mavens Own Peeves
Keep in mind that a language is both a map of the world and its own world, with its own shadowlands and crevasses -… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Change in language is hard to capture and when it's visible or audible; it is also hard for some to accept. — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Indeed, which will be scattered and broken yet moment we language will be its hostile — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“People know two languages: their native language and gibberish.” — Maribel C. Pagan Copy Share Image
Always, in epochs when the languages and dialects of a culture have become outstripped by development of a practical sort, these languages become repetitive,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in how people use language to not say what they mean. — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Consistent style prevents presentation from getting in the way of content. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I've never argued that humans are massively hot-wired. What I was trying to point out was that you can't understand how we learn unless… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Since violence is largely a male pastime, cultures that empower women tend to move away from the glorification of violence and are less likely… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock.… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The biblical story of the binding of Isaac shows that human sacrifice was far from unthinkable in the 1st millennium BCE. The Israelites boasted… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
In fact, without a specification of a creature's goals, the very idea of intelligence is meaningless. A toadstool could be given a genius award… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The obvious cure for the tragic shortcomings of human intuition in a high-tech world is education. And this offers priorities for educational policy: to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
It's commonly said that if slaughterhouses had clear glass walls, nobody would eat meat. I think people go out of their way to remain… — Steve-O Copy Share Image
Barium, which is commonly found in power plant waste and scrubber wastewater, has been linked to heart problems and diseases in other organs. — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to… — Lakhdar Brahimi Copy Share Image
It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our… — Edmond H. Fischer Copy Share Image
The guard rails on a highway may restrict some folks from driving the way they want, but those rules mostly end up saving the… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding this high Ecclesiastical authority, he who dared accept truth only because it could be proved, or proved to be good, and disregard authority,… — Ethan A. Hitchcock Copy Share Image
If left untreated, Lyme disease can be crippling, yet it is a difficult illness to contract: a tick needs to attach itself to your… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
And let me take one of the explanations most commonly given: Analysts were pressured to reach conclusions that would fit the political agenda of… — David Kay Copy Share Image
Pimenton gets its intense flavor because it is dried over wood smoke. You can try hot, sweet or bittersweet, though sweet is probably the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
Water is commonly regarded as the 'solvent of life,' since our bodies are 70% water. All other vertebrates, invertebrates, microbes, and plants are also… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
