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 KingTags: language leonardo-da-vinci
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)
Tags: communication language psychology linguistics language-as-a-disease
The topics which language limits us to aren’t much worth discussing in the first place.
(attrib: F.L. Vanderson)
Tags: language conversation limits
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)
Tags: writing communication language editing
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 NaimyTags: reading read language اللغة
Lie, illusion, deception, she said--was that it truly, the universal language we all speak?
Cynthia OzickTags: deception lies humanity language
Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: christianity religion language spelling etiquette internet rules excuses commandments grammar social-networking twitter tweet social-networks the-ten-commandments
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 BrysonTags: language linguistics lingodiversity
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 TobarTags: language privilege spanish english
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!"?
Tags: words language squirrels sentences vacuums speaking
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