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The [mental] organization of grammar [is] a case where complexity in the mind is not caused by learning; learning is caused by complexity in the mind. — Steven Pinker

Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Poetry translation is like playing a piano sonata on a trombone. — Nataly Kelly

In grammar, as in war, there is strength in numbers. — Martin Worthington

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

We mathematicians are used to the fact that our subject is widely misunderstood, perhaps more than any other subject (except perhaps linguistics). — Keith Devlin

A proof becomes a proof after the social act of accepting it as a proof. This is true of mathematics as it is of physics, linguistics, and biology. — Yuri Manin

essential differences between generative grammar and structural linguistics. — Noam Chomsky

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

Linguistics becomes an ever eerier area, like I feel like I'm in Oz, Just trying to tell it like it was. — Ogden Nash

The Devil fights from behind barricades of linguistic complexity, but the war of words will be won by those armed only with simplistic truths — Dean Cavanagh

Remember that lettuce doesn't grow on a spruce; and it also doesn't rhyme with it. — Jakub Marian

In Iraq, interpreters were ten times more likely to be killed than were U.S. troops. — Nataly Kelly

Translation software is not making translators obsolete. Has medical diagnostic software made doctors obsolete? — Nataly Kelly

To discuss endlessly what silly people mean when they say silly things may be amusing but can hardly be important. — Bertrand Russell

As long as human beings speak different languages, the need for translation will continue. — Nataly Kelly

There are ten parts of speech and they are all troublesome. — Mark Twain

To deny access to translation and interpreting services oppresses human rights and violates laws. — Nataly Kelly

Linguine linguistics that left my verbal essence saucy,
Send a message, leave you sleepin' next to headless horsey. — Action Bronson

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary. — Roy Blount Jr.

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people. — Matthew McConaughey

People's sense of how they talk tends to differ from the reality. — John McWhorter

A theory of reality must not only explain reality, but also knowledge about that reality because knowing reality is part of reality. — Ashish Dalela

That which is alike will be called same. That which is not same is different. — Leonard Bloomfield

The most lasting thing from my linguistics education is SpecGram.. — Trey Jones

What the survival of threatened languages means, perhaps, is the endurance of dozens, hundreds, thousands of subtly different notions of truth. — Mark Abley

Language, never forget, is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines. — Bill Bryson

An entire mythology is stored within our language. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

In school, I studied psychology, linguistics, neuroscience. I understand that there is a real lack of respect for the brain. — Aloe Blacc

There are only two things in the world: nothing and semantics. — Werner Erhard

Sound is the hard currency; meaning is the network of cultural and formal conventions that turns it into a stick of gum at the
candy store. — Randy Allen Harris

I should think a dead language would be rather boring, socially
speaking. — Sol Luckman

The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon. — Michael Crichton

A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms. — Roman Jakobson

Chantal is having a relationship with a sentence. Just one of those things. A chance meeting that grew into something important for the both of them. — Neil Gaiman

One man's modus ponens is another man's reductio, as epistemologists are forever pointing out (In Critical Condition, p. 70) — Jerry A. Fodor

Every page should explode, either because of its staggering absurdity, the enthusiasm of its principles, or its typography. — Tristan Tzara

Welsh mutates initial consonants. Actually all languages do, but most of them take centuries, while Welsh does it while your mouth is still open. — Jo Walton

My partner and I were going to renew our vowels, but the consonants revolted. — Stewart Lee Beck

The language looks rather different when you look at a lot of it at once. — John Sinclair

Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other. — Ferdinand De Saussure

I would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective. — Mark Twain

Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics. — Roman Jakobson

Home means always here... — Will Advise

The only languages which do not change are dead ones. — David Crystal

To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture. — Frantz Fanon

Grammar is politics by other means. — Donna J. Haraway

Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences. — Samuel R. Delany

The 'science' in 'science fiction' isn't just physics and engineering. It can also be linguistics, anthropology, and psychology. — Ann Leckie

Of the 193 recognized countries in the world, only politically isolated North Korea is considered monolingual. — Nataly Kelly