Language Quote by William Boyd

“The more parents talk to their children, even in the earliest moments of life, the better their kids’ linguistic abilities become”

— John Medina

“Living like that utterly convinced me of the extreme limitations of language. I was just a child then, so I had only an intuitive…

— Banana Yoshimoto

“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

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

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Learning a language happens in stages, and the first breakthrough is a limited understanding. Somehow the words began to make sense; I could not…

— Vicki Archer

“Ease of learning isn’t the primary force in language evolution.”

— Ted Chiang

“Our language has lost its ability to convey the spontaneous.”

— Jerzy Kosiński

“However, why does it so often fail to dawn on them that if we’re smart enough to understand their instructions, we might well also…

— Naoki Higashida

“Which makes you wonder, are they really speaking real words or do little kids just start out naturally understanding each other before the prime…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“But due to some strange lack of neural coordination between the faculties of thinking and speaking, or perhaps to the crucial lifeline that lucidity…

— María Dueñas

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

— Ava Dellaira

“language is sometimes a barrier instead of a pathway.”

— Daniel Keyes