That one of history’s greatest brains struggled with amo, amas, amat should be consolation to anyone who has ever tried to learn a second language.

Ross King

Stichwörter: language leonardo-da-vinci



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Don't you find it odd that two of the foremost symptoms of insanity are the hearing voices and talking to oneself? Is it any wonder that language is an area of such interest in psychology?

(attrib: F.L. Vanderson)

Mort W. Lumsden

Stichwörter: communication language psychology linguistics language-as-a-disease



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The topics which language limits us to aren’t much worth discussing in the first place.

(attrib: F.L. Vanderson)

Mort W. Lumsden

Stichwörter: language conversation limits



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Isn't one of the first lessons of good elocution that there's nothing one can say in any rambling, sprawling rant that can't, through some effort, be said shorter and better with a little careful editing? Or that, in writing, there's nothing you can describe in any page-filling paragraph that can't be captured better in just a sentence or two? Perhaps even nothing in any sentence which cannot better be refined in a single, spot-on word? Does it not follow, then, that there's likely nothing one can say in any word - in saying anything at all - that, ultimately, isn't better left unsaid?

(attrib: F.L. Vanderson)

Mort W. Lumsden

Stichwörter: writing communication language editing



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أَلا بوركت اللغة البشرية, فما أَوسعها على آلذينَ يسمعون ويقرأُون أَكثر من الحرف وتبًّا لها ما أَضيقها على الذين لا يقرأُون منها ولايسمعون غير الحرف.

Mikhail Naimy

Stichwörter: reading read language اللغة



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Lie, illusion, deception, she said--was that it truly, the universal language we all speak?

Cynthia Ozick

Stichwörter: deception lies humanity language



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Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Stichwörter: christianity religion language spelling etiquette internet rules excuses commandments grammar social-networking twitter tweet social-networks the-ten-commandments



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If we should be worrying about anything to do with the future of English, it should not be that the various strands will drift apart but that they will grow indistinguishable. And what a sad, sad loss that would be.

Bill Bryson

Stichwörter: language linguistics lingodiversity



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She would speak her story in Spanish and la señora Maureen would tell hers in English; it was obvious to her that the two languages did not carry equal weight.

Héctor Tobar

Stichwörter: language privilege spanish english



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She said the words, and then she had a strange moment of seeing them, hanging there over her head.

"You're going to vacuum up that squirrel!"

There is just no predicting what kind of sentences you might say, thought Flora. For instance, who would ever think you would shout, "You're going to vacuum up that squirrel!"?

Kate DiCamillo

Stichwörter: words language squirrels sentences vacuums speaking



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