“...I m worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in grad school, a friend of a friend, and just listening to her talk is scary. The semiotic dialetics of intertextual modernity. Which makes no sense at all. Sometimes I feel that they live in a parallel universe of academia speaking acadamese instead of English and they don t really know what s happening in the real world.”
“All the time when I speak to you, even now, I m saying not precisely what I think, but what will impress you and make you respond. That s so even between us - and how much more it s so where there are stronger motives for deception. In fact, one s so used to this one hardly sees it. The whole language is a machine for making falsehoods.”
“Parlez-vous français, madame?” “Oui,” I said warily, certain that this conversation was taking a multilingual turn for the worse.”
“The guitarist is dependent on the guitar, which is dependent upon the creation, which is dependent on whatever creative forces or realities are responsible for its existence. If you call this creative force or reality God, then art really could be thought of as the language God speaks. All art is rooted in whatever is the foundation of everything.”
“Eyes and sex understand and know every language, without any distinction.”
“No, not always, but I love language. It is a living, breathing, evolving thing, and language has power. Whether in a song lyric, a poem, a speech, or a simple conversation, we ve all experienced words that resonate with us. They make us recall a powerful moment, inspire us, move us, or perhaps, comfort us... But at the same time, we don t think in words. We think in pictures. If I say the word dog to you, you aren t picturing the letters d-o-g, you re picturing a dog from your memory. I m fascinated by the idea of combining literal language witth visual one.”
“Let s create a new International Language ! According to me, an International Language will be such a new kind of language that will be created by the presence and consent of the representatives of all the countries in the world. This new language will contain utterly new alphabets, fresh grammatical rules, original or selective vocabulary from all the current languages in the world etc.”
“চলুন একটি নতুন আন্তর্জাতিক ভাষা সৃষ্টি করি! আমার মতে আন্তর্জাতিক ভাষা হবে এমন একটি নতুন ধরণের ভাষা যেটি সৃষ্টি করা হবে পৃথিবীর সকল দেশের প্রতিনিধিদের উপস্থিতি ও সম্মতির মাধ্যমে। এই নতুন ভাষায় থাকবে সম্পূর্ণ নতুন বর্ণমালা, ব্যাকরণরীতি, নতুন বা বিদ্যমান সকল ভাষা হতে নির্বাচিত শব্দভাণ্ডার ইত্যাদি।”
“I know what you’re thinking about,” said Tweedle-dum, “But it ain’t so, nohow.” “Contrariwise,” continued Tweedledee, “if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.”
“How does it happen, thought Ciri, what can it be ascribed to, that in all worlds, places and times, in all languages and dialects that one word always sounds comprehensible? And always similar? Yes. I must ride to my mamma. My mamma is waiting for me.”
“One can cry and smile, in every language; however, to feel that one needs the feeling, not the words and language.”
“A generation accustomed to relate much of its thought to spoken English may question whether even our words need remodelling as well as our spelling, if they are to be adequate for new purposes and ideas.”
“In any case, e lengeege weth e smell nember ef vewels cen remeen quete expresseve, so we cannot conclude that a hominid with a restricted vowel space had little language.”
“This was safe enough — the shape didn t move, at least — but it could do terrible thing to, let us say, the gyroscope of the soul.”
“Not having some basic Japanese language skills will make your time in Japan, confusing, frustrating and expensive because you can’t communicate effectively”