Every other man spoke a language entirely his own, which he had figured out by private thinking; he had his own ideas and peculiar ways. If you wanted to talk about a glass of water, you had to start back with God creating the heavens and earth; the apple; Abraham; Moses and Jesus; Rome; the Middle Ages; gunpowder; the Revolution; back to Newton; up to Einstein; then war and Lenin and Hitler. After reviewing this and getting it all straight again you could proceed to talk about a glass of water. "I'm fainting, please get me a little water." You were lucky even then to make yourself understood. And this happened over and over and over with everyone you met. You had to translate and translate, explain and explain, back and forth, and it was the punishment of hell itself not to understand or be understood.
Saul BellowTags: language-understanding
De todos los idiomas europeos el que resulta más difícil de hablar bien a mi entender es sin duda el español, tal es su riqueza de palabras, rotaciones lingüísticas y belleza expresiva. Ocurre sin embargo que tan pocas personas conocen lo que dicen, son tan escasas las que manejan por completo el inmenso vocabulario de esta excepcional lengua, tan selectas las que entienden sus innumerables giros y tiempos verbales, que parece simple y sencillo a primera vista.
Antonio Cavanillas de BlasTags: language spanish español language-understanding
Hablar bien, expresarse correctamente en español, no es conocer mil palabras y vomitarlas machaconamente; supone el conocimiento preciso de cada término, su raíz filológica, el empleo justo de cada vocablo en el momento adecuado evitando redundancias, hipérboles y prolongaciones del discurso que, de otra forma, deviene pesado y pedantesco.
Antonio Cavanillas de BlasTags: language spanish español language-understanding
They started the meeting out by saying, "Everybody please take your seats"
I was halfway back to my cubicle with mine before they stopped me...
Tags: language-understanding
If I program ’ware with an Anglo-Ubiq word and play it, you understand it,” Scile said. “If I do the same with a word in Language, and play it to an Ariekes, I understand it, but to them it means nothing, because it’s only sound, and that’s not where the meaning lives. It needs a mind behind it.
China MiévilleTags: language science-fiction language-understanding
Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication.
-Aunt Beast
Tags: language language-learning language-understanding
What are your drawn to?"
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"Language, Words, No, not teaching. Perhaps one day I'll write something.
Tags: language-understanding
Expressing emotion is not so easy. He has to remind himself that English is not her first language. Expressing emotion can be difficult even when the words are familiar.
Elise ValmorbidaTags: language-understanding expressing-yourself
Of all the languages that have existed upon the Earth, the Hebrew language is unique and extraordinary in its ability to paint vivid pictures with words that lodge within the heart conveying deep and profound Truth".
~R. Alan Woods [2012]
Tags: language-understanding language-structure r-alan-woods
Language is not the barrier, the heart is".
~R. Alan Woods [2012]
Tags: heart language-understanding r-alan-woods
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