Language Quotes - Page 56

My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.

No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives.

Without language, it is safe to say that man would not have become fully human.

The language that reveals also obscures.

There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature.

Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.

Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.

Christ is Lord of all. This truth implies that he is lord of language, lord of grammar, lord of history, and lord or interpretive principles. We cannot just take things over unchanged from the world around us. We should be thinking through and living through the implications of Christ's lordship in every sphere of life.

Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of 19th century Africa.

Language is double-edged; through words a fuller view of reality emerges, but words can also serve to fragment reality.

English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.

Perhaps we should keep our monsters about us, lest we become them ourselves.

Is calling English our national language racist? Are we at that point?

Soundbite and slogan, strapline and headline, at every turn we meet hyperbole. The soaring inflation of the English language is more urgently in need of control than the economic variety.

Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation.

In the political language of today, people who want to keep what they have earned are said to be greedy, while those who wish to take their earnings from them and give it to others (who will vote for them in return) show compassion.

There is a logic of language and a logic of mathematics.

So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all my years of travelling.

Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

It's odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which "I" is capitalized; in many other languages "You" is capitalized and the "i" is lower case." --

A poem is a construction of inner space. Language is to inner space as light is to material space.

There's something to be said about all music being some translation of our languaging, our way of communicating. It's a language. This is a new language.

Magic, then, is not a method, but a language; it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the language of religion. Ritual is a symbolic transformation of experiences that no other medium can adequately express.