Human language Quote by Will Ferguson

When we listen to improvisational jazz, or solo classical violinists, the way they phrase and inflect melodies feels vocal, like they’re talking to us.…

— Bobby McFerrin

Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a…

— Thomas Pynchon

The earliest language was body language and, since this language is the language of questions, if we limit the questions, and if we only…

— Paulo Freire

All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by…

— Jacques Ellul

Human language is open extendable and modifiable whereas animal language is not.

— RMKATTA

Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the needs and…

— Julian Burnside

Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.

— Larry Wall

“Human language can only work in broad categories. We create words for things, even though words have a danger of confining things. People will…

— Chris Damian

The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of speech that…

— David Abram

Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest.…

— Donald Johanson

Language,-human language,-after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,-sometimes not so adequate.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Human language, for us moderns, has swung in on itself, turning its back on the beings around us. Language is a human property, suitable…

— David Abram

The present gives you the opportunity to dive deep into the water of life, or to fly high into the sky of life. But…

— Rajneesh

There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human…

— Noam Chomsky

Human language is nothing like the signalling systems of other animals.

— Noam Chomsky