But language is wine upon his lips
Virginia WoolfTags: language
Have you heard," he said "that many of our people believe if you know five colloquial expressions in their tribal language, they must always provide you with nourishment and shelter? But-" He paused as though to make sure she was paying attention. "But if you know fewer than five, they owe you not even a sip of water."
She nodded, understanding his point, but he pressed it.
"Learn those five phrases, Miss Sweeney," he said.
Tags: language culture hospitality
And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue has exhausted their brains' capacity to cope with any further irregularity
Guy DeutscherLanguage is music. Written words are musical notation. The music of a piece of fiction establishes the way in which it is to be read, and, in the largest sense, what it means. It is essential to remember that characters have a music as well, a pitch and tempo, just as real people do. To make them believable, you must always be aware of what they would or would not say, where stresses would or would not fall.
Marilynne RobinsonTags: music language fiction musical-notation
. . . we come astonishingly close to the mystical beliefs of Pythagoras and his followers who attempted to submit all of life to the sovereignty of numbers. Many of our psychologists, sociologists, economists and other latter-day cabalists will have numbers to tell them the truth or they will have nothing. . . . We must remember that Galileo merely said that the language of nature is written in mathematics. He did not say that everything is. And even the truth about nature need not be expressed in mathematics. For most of human history, the language of nature has been the language of myth and ritual. These forms, one might add, had the virtues of leaving nature unthreatened and of encouraging the belief that human beings are part of it. It hardly befits a people who stand ready to blow up the planet to praise themselves too vigorously for having found the true way to talk about nature.
Neil PostmanTags: nature language math mysticism mathematics numbers pythagoras galileo sovereign galileo-galilei
Poetry translation is like playing a piano sonata on a trombone.
Nataly KellyTags: language linguistics translation interpreting
As long as human beings speak different languages, the need for translation will continue.
Nataly KellyTags: language linguistics translation interpreting
Translation software is not making translators obsolete. Has medical diagnostic software made doctors obsolete?
Nataly KellyTags: language linguistics translation interpreting
Of the 193 recognized countries in the world, only politically isolated North Korea is considered monolingual.
Nataly KellyTags: language linguistics translation interpreting
In Iraq, interpreters were ten times more likely to be killed than were U.S. troops.
Nataly KellyTags: language linguistics translation interpreting
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