78 Quotes About Semantics

Kevyn, Ennesby tells me you are building a time machine.Actually I'm finished.In one afternoon? Wow... Does it work?After a fashion....I put a whole lot of energy into it, and the next thing I knew it was time for dinner.-Captain Tagon & Commander Andreyasn

Unlike meaning, the truth always survives translation.

There is absolutely nothing feminine about the colour pink, or, anything bad-luck'ish about the colour black — in itself.

Most social media users sometimes like statements they do not understand.

Two of the biggest problems with language is that you can say what you do not mean to say, and that you can say what you do not mean.

Sometimes a fool says something wise without the intention to do that, and the awareness of having done that.

A fist is not a thing but a particular state of a particular thing.

Words are wonderfully elastic. They can be mispronounced, misspelled, misused or mistranslated. Even the most precise technical term can be stretched into a verb or adjective, slang or idiom, stretched all the way around until it finds itself facing itself, a mirror image, the exact opposite of itself. Mark my words, it can.

Overrated is order.