2,489 Quotes About Language


  • Author Thomas Bulfinch
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    The Welsh language is one of the oldest in Europe. It possesses poems the origin of which is referred with probability to the sixth century.

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  • Author Walter Benjamin
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    Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information-hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.

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  • Author Andrew Cohen
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    If you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language.

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  • Author Brian Chase
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    The language is deliberately fuzzy. They want to try to take away any legal recognition for same-sex unions.

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