2,489 Quotes About Language

Und wenn diese Sprache, das Deutsche, nicht meine ist, dann ist es auch meine Schuld. Statt darum zu flehen, zu erbitten, sie möge Platz für uns schaffen, sollten wir uns diesen Platz nehmen. Wir sollten aufhören auf diesen Zeitpunkt zu warten, an dem wir endlich wir selbst sein dürfen. Sondern damit einfach beginnen. Und doch: Ein schwierigeres Einfach ist mir nicht bekannt.

Cultural Perspectives in Language: Entries in an Actual Dictionary1. Bloke n. (Informal - British) A man. ('He's a nice bloke.')2. Dude n. (Informal - North American) A man. ('If a dude hits me, I'm hitting him back.')

Language is a parade, and nobody sits at a parade wishing that everybody would stand still.

…the nausea due to misunderstanding a language, the fear due to unfamiliarity with a style, the conflict of generations, are all mild examples of sign shock.

Of all the metaphors found in architecture, there have been few put to such a variety of uses, and certainly none so contentious, as those derived from language.

Even more than notions of architecture have changed, so have the conceptions of language. No social product has given rise to more continuous speculation and more various theories than has language, and in this has been much of its fascination to architects. Language has for the last two hundred years been an ever-open quarry, to which, as new strata become exposed, architects and critics have returned repeatedly to find fresh metaphors.

Canlı, esnek, devingen, değişken öğelerden oluşan yazın dili, düzanlamlar doğrultusunda bir kalıplaşmaya, geleneksel bir kurallaşmaya zorlandığı an ölür. Gerçekte yazın metinlerinin, salt dilbilimsel temelli bilgisayar çevirisine elverişsizliği de, bu özelliklerinin doğal bir sonucudur.

Translator is a journey over a sea from one shore to the other. Sometimes I think of myself as a smuggler: I cross the frontier of language with my booty of words, ideas, images, and metaphors.

To read what was never written.’ Such reading is the most ancient: reading before all languages, from the entrails, the stars, or dances. Later the mediating link of a new kind of reading, of runes and hieroglyphs, came into use.