Language Linguistics Quotes
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Language Linguistics Quotes & Sayings
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Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
When a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.
— George Steiner
Language disguises thought.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Language is a social art.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
Not everyone who knows how to write can be a writer. Not everyone who knows two languages can be a translator.
— Nataly Kelly
Teach me to speak the language of men.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
Of the 193 recognized countries in the world, only politically isolated North Korea is considered monolingual.
— Nataly Kelly
That which is alike will be called same. That which is not same is different.
— Leonard Bloomfield
People's sense of how they talk tends to differ from the reality.
— John McWhorter
To deny access to translation and interpreting services oppresses human rights and violates laws.
— Nataly Kelly
Translation software is not making translators obsolete. Has medical diagnostic software made doctors obsolete?
— Nataly Kelly
As long as human beings speak different languages, the need for translation will continue.
— Nataly Kelly
To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.
— Frantz Fanon
The only languages which do not change are dead ones.
— David Crystal
Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.
— Roman Jakobson
An entire mythology is stored within our language.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.
— Roman Jakobson
