Language Quotes - Page 35

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

English is the easiest language to speak badly.

Today, getting people to hear your story on social media, and then act on it, requires using a platform’s native language, paying attention to context, understanding the nuances and subtle differences that make each platform unique, and adapting your content to match.

Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings.

When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend.

I have lived my life in the slipstream of experience

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

Language that tells us, through a more or less emotional reaction, something that can not be said.

The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.

It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.

Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.

The English language is nobody's special property.

The world of public discourse - political, social, diplomatic, commercial - has so corrupted language that we are rightly more suspicious of the meaning of words than we are convinced of their veracity. Language has been turned on its head.

There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.

If Language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant. If what is said is not what is meant, then what ought to be done, remains undone.

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.

When I say that we have met the Martians and they are us, I am using colorful language to suggest that we may have been seeded in the process of panspermia.

However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.

C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good

They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.

Overseas, language barriers keep me from doing a lot of talking and some of the jokes that I think are funny and they're like crickets. I have to sharpen up on that.

Body language is so important, as is composition. You can not say something, and then the body reacts, and it says a lot of things dialogue can also say.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.