2,489 Quotes About Language

  • Author Guy Deutscher
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    People can cope with the chaos of change over the years (that is, with 'diachronic variation'), simply because they can cope with the even greater chaos of synchronic variation, the diversity at any one point in time.

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  • Author Suman Pokhrel
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    On translating text into the new language as it is in source language, there is a chance of it being emerged as an absurd sentence in the target language making no sense at all. In the attempt to make the translation meaningful to the target language, there exists a risk of the original work getting meddled by the translator’s style.

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  • Author Ehsan Sehgal
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    Posted by adminA Quote of the Day---By Ehsan Sehgal---18-08-2018---3.30 PM, The Hague, NetherlandsA sober, wise and visionary one never dress its vision with the filth, abusing and humiliating tongue of immoral language. Ehsan Sehgal

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  • Author Ehsan Sehgal
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    A sober, wise and visionary one never dress its vision with the filth, abusing and humiliating tongue of immoral language.

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  • Author Jhumpa Lahiri
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    When you live without your own language you feel weightless and, at the same time, overloaded. You breathe another type of air, at a different altitude. You are always aware of the difference.

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