Language Quotes - Page 93

Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.

I don't speak ... I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.

My homeland is the portuguese language.

Regardless of whether one is dealing with assembly language or compiler language, the number of debugged lines of source code per day is about the same!

The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.

For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.

Even if you're a genius and you invent your own language, it doesn't become a language until there are people using it.

Working with the Latin language is pretty powerful. Working with a language that is not spoken vernacularly is intense.

The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.

It's always a unique challenge when you're working with somebody where English is their second language.

When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.

You don't need to use the language of God to ask where the restrooms are.

Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history.

Language can be used to so many diverse ends. It can be used to clarify and, of course, it can be used to obfuscate, confuse, evade.

Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.

All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false.... For truth, properly considered, is about the relationship between language and the world, not about photographs and the world.

All the best bands have a language, and what they say within that language makes it is what it is.

French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.

All language is a popularity contest.

Language is a nice way to remember things.

C is not clean – the language has many gotchas and traps, and although its semantics are simple in some sense, it is not any cleaner than the assembly-language design it is based on.

I have learnt to appreciate the clarity of English language.