Linguistics Quotes
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Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
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
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
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
An entire mythology is stored within our language.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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 thecandy store. — Randy Allen Harris
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
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
Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.
— Ferdinand De Saussure
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
