2,489 Quotes About Language

In Chinese class we learn every character / has its own history, so in other words, / in class we learn language makes itself / alive, so in other words, / I know my history is alive every time I speak.

Literature speaks in a perfect language .

Why are we running after beautiful texts, perfect language, fancy vocabulary! Forget the Grammar, forget those perfect writers. Remember writers write from their heart, so just pen down your thoughts and throw away external fancies.

My tongue was handed down to meby datus and katipuneros. The truth ismy mouth is a battlefield thatyou wouldn’t know how to fight in.

When one heated exchange (in English) led a commenter to write "Go fuck yourself!" in Lojban, it turned into a lengthy discussion of why he hadn't said what he meant to say, and what the proper Lojban expression for the sentiment might be.

the most important things can't be lassoed with language. The most important things can only be felt.

'Your brain doesn't process language quite like other people. Why that is, I have no idea.' 'I have a superior brain?' 'Uh,' Eliot said, 'I wouldn't go that far.'

Not having some basic Japanese language skills will make your time in Japan, confusing, frustrating and expensive because you can’t communicate effectively

Japanese is written in columns starting at the top right-hand corner of the page and continues to the left-hand side of the page. Newspapers, books and magazines are read from the back page to the front page