The fact that in the twentieth century a greater proportion of the people in the world could communicate with one another, using English or just a few other languages, appears not to have stopped any wars, nor to have reduced the frequency with which wars have broken out, nor to have made the wars that have broken out less brutal. In fact, several murderous wars have been fought recently among people who speak 'the same language' in real terms.
Andrew DalbyOn the basis of this information, it would be possible to argue that if everybody spoke English (or Chinese or Esperanto for that matter) everybody would be at war even more often.
Andrew DalbyThere is reinforcement in such familiar back-formations as Chinee from Chinese, Portugee from Portuguese.
H.L. MenckenMots clés language chinese portuguese american-english
Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.
Criss JamiMots clés humor language psychology funny justification fallacy deceit incorrect argue debate english study babble funny-but-true debating arguing correct argumentation refutation self-justification babbling craftiness fallacies psychobabble redefine retorts wrongness
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 MiévilleMots clés language science-fiction language-understanding
Teachers were powerful enough to kill the indigenous languages: they are not powerful enough to bring them back to life.
Andrew DalbyMots clés language
It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content… it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble, and from babble to confusion.
René DaumalMots clés language
If you've never studied German before or think you know nothing about it, you might be in for a little surprise. You already know many German words .And you have the advantage of being an English speaker,which means that your knowledge of that language will be a helpful tool for learning German efficiently and comfortably.
Edward SwickMots clés language german-language
It happens all too often - people regret that their language and culture are being lost but at the same time decide not to saddle their own children with the chore of preserving them.
Andrew DalbyMots clés language
If two thousand five hundred languages are to be lost in the course of the twenty-first century, don’t be in any doubt about what that means for us: in each of those two thousand five hundreds cases a culture will be lost.
Andrew DalbyMots clés language
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