2,489 Quotes About Language

I was certain about this: In the best new language, there would be no words for me or you. Those words have caused all the trouble started by the old languages. In any new language, there should only be we.

If commas are open to interpretation, hyphens are downright Delphic.

...ganz egal wie schön das Wortgewand ist, mit dem ich mich bedecke.Ich werde immer. Splitter. Faser. Nackt sein.

Since God doesn't have a name, I'll give him the name of Simptar. It doesn't come from any language. I give myself the name Amptala. As far as I know no such name exists. Perhaps in a language earlier than Sanskrit, an it-language.

Najbardziej polskie słowo: ŻÓŁĆ1. Składa się z samych znaków występujących wyłącznie w polskim języku.2. W symboliczny sposób stanowi o naturze naszej wspólnoty: zgorzknienie, frustracja, poczucie niespełnienia, ciągłe niezadowolenie...

Student-people are different from other people. They spend their entire life asking questions, and as soon as they have found out the answers, they start all over again with new, harder questions... when a student-person finds a good answer to a hard question, the other student-people will gasp, hug each other, and then throw a party. Those parties never last long, for student-people are in a hurry to go back to work and find new answers.

Чи багато з тих, хто активно оперує мовою, усвідомлює, що мова перебуває сьогодні на критичному роздоріжжі не лише в тому - бути їй чи не бути, а й у виборі своєї майбутньої структури і що кожний з нас, виробляючи ті чи инші слова й форми, голосує за те, якою вона буде структурно ... Ми, звичайно, не уявляємо собі, наскільки кожний з нас відповідальний за те, якою буде мова майбутнього, хай у безконечно малій дозі.

Well, most textbooks say language is a mechanism for expressing thought. But language is thought. Thought is information given form. The form is language.

It is not uncommon for textbooks on language to have sections on the relationship 'between' language and society, as if these were two independent entities which just happen to come into contact occasionally. My view is that there is not an external relationship 'between' language and society, but an internal and dialectical relationship.