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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Accent is the soul of a language; it gives the feeling and truth to it. [Fr., L’accent est l’ame du discours, il lui donne le sentiment et la verite.]
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According to the United Nations’ latest count, of the approximately 3,000 languages spoken in the world today, only some 78 have a literature. Of those 78, a scant five or six enjoy a truly international audience.
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After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?
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All language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved.
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All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.
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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
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An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.
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An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry.
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An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Sweedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.
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And don’t confound the language of the nation With long-tailed words in osity and ation.- John Hookham Frere
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And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain of our best glories shall be sent, ‘t unknowing Nations with our stores? What worlds in the yet unformed Occident may come refined with the accents that are ours?
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Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words and phrases we use are ‘prefabricated’ in the sense that we don’t coin new ones every time we speak.
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Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.- Jack Lynch
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As the language of the face is universal, so ’tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it: ‘Tis the short hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room.
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At the end of the day, flirting is a pretty universal language. Americans are more direct. British people are more indirect about everything
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Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.
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Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.
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But here’s old Ken – he’s been crass, he’s been insensitive and thuggish and brutal in his language – but I don’t think actually if you read what he said, although it was extraordinary and rude, I don’t think he was actually anti-Semitic.
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